|L§ftAE¥ OF CONGRESS,! 

f #1 
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. | 



"THE HOLY SCRIPTURES" 
ANALYZED ; 

OR, 

EXTRACTS FROM THE BIBLE, 



SHOWING ITS 



CONTRADICTIONS, ABSURDITIES, AND IMMORALITIES. 



BY ROBERT COOPER. 



TO WHICH IS ADDED, 

A VINDICATION OF THE WORK 

From the Attacks of the Bishop vf Exeter t in the House of Lords, 
January 24, 1840. 



M Many passages in Scripture were written with such force, and he might 
say with such nakedness of diction, as rendered them unfit for indiscrimi- 
nate perusal. There were parts of the Old Testament in which images of 
voluptuousness were presented to the mind, on which the imagination of a 
youthful female ought not to be permitted to repose. He would venture to 
assert that the Odes of Anacreon did not display more luxury of imagina- 
tion or combine more sensual associations than parts of the Old Testa- 
ment." — " The Bible contained details of atrocity at which human nature 
shuddered. Part of the Holy "Writings consisted of history, and of the 
narration of facts of a kind, that could not be mentioned in the presence of 
a virtuous woman without exciting horror. Should a woman be permitted 
to read in her chamber what she would tremble to hear at her domestic 
board ? Should she con over and revolve what she would rather die than 
utter V* 

The Right Hon. R. L. Shbil, M.P. 




AUSTIN & CO., 17, JOHNSON'S COUKT, FLEET ST. 

E.C. 

Price Eightjpence, 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



The distinguishing characteristic of the present age is the 
freedom of enquiry and discussion which prevails upon all 
subjects ; and particularly religious subjects. Intelligent and 
thinking men, of every class, are beginning to investigate and 
discuss questions of the latter kind with considerable close- 
ness, fearlessness, and determination. They are now resolved 
no longer to be hood-winked with the veil of prejudice, en- 
chained with the trammels of superstition, or deluded by the 
impositions, or intimidated by the denunciations of a crafty 
and intolerant priesthood ; but to examine for themselves.— 
w To prove all things and hold fast that which is good." And 
long have the priesthood dreaded, and anxiously have they 
endeavoured to procrastinate, the arrival of this period. Long 
have they been apprehensive of the development of intellect, 
and the enlightenment of mind. Long have they feared the 
advent of that era which will hail the dawn of rationality, and 
advancement. And why ? Because they knew full well, igno- 
rant and superstitious as many of them undoubtedly are, 
that when intellect and rationality become the main-springs 
of society, — when men begin dispassionately and philosophi- 
cally to examine into the mysteries and workings of religion, 
their impositions will be discovered, their craftiness detected 
and their designs and practices fully exposed. And, wheiv 
once this is done, they are conscious their influence over the 
people would immediately decline, and ultimately fall. This 
has already, in some measure, proved true. For through the 
many bold and daring innovations which have lately been 
made by a Paine, a Voltaire, a Mirabaud, a Volney, a Taylor, 
a Howitt, and an Owen, upon what is arrogantly called the 
consecrated ground of religion, their influence has materially 
diminished, and has every prospect of continuing to do so. And 
this they know — this they feel. Hence the terrific thunderbolts 
of indignation and anathema, which they have hurled at the 
characters of those distinguished men. And hence that mali- 
cious and vindictive spirit which they have manifested to- 
wards all those who ha^e had the integrity, or boldness, to 
acknowledge themselves their disciples. Hence, too, their 
present discreditable opposition to every educational, political, 
and social measure, which would conduce to the elevation and 
improvement of society. But poor deluded mortals ! how vain 
will they find their attempts to impede the mighty progress 
of truth — the glorious advancement of thought and enlighten- 
ment. As well, indeed, might they attempt to overthrow the 
pyramids of Egypt with a feather, as endeavour to demolish 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



3 



the temple of reason and intellect which is now erecting in 
society ; — a temple which, while it will be a glorious^emblem 
of the progression of man, will serve a lasting monument of 
their final downfall ! So considerably, in fact, is the power 
of the priesthood already undermined, that they are now be- 
ginning to be looked upon, by the leading minds of all classes, 
with feelings of indifference and compassion rather than those 
of reverence and admiration. 

It was the desire to hasten the annihilation of the influence 
of these men that induced me to publish the following work ; 
— a work which, I trust, will serve somewhat to expose one 
of the greatest impositions ever palmed upon mankind in any 
age, or country. 1 allude, as may be supposed, to the Bible 
Yes, the Christian priesthood dare so outrageously blaspheme 
the character of the Supreme Governor of the universe, as to 
say, that that book is his word ; that he either wrote, or in 
spired men to write it. O shame, shame upon such bias 
phemy ! What ! a Munificent, and Omniscient Deity the 
author of a book replete with more contradictions, containing 
more immoralities, and inculcating more absurdities, than any 
book extant ; contradictions, too, of the grossest character, 
immoralities of the most pernicious tendency, and absurdities 
of the most extravagant nature. Audacious impiety ! Such 
an opinion, perhaps, might be entertained in the dark age of 
ignorance and superstition, but in this, the boasted era of rea- 
son and science, it must be repudiated by all who dare openly 
and frankly avow their sentiments. This may be deemed by 
those who have always read the Bible with their eyes closed, or 
who are interested in teaching its doctrines and mysteries, 
very bold and presumptuous, but let the reader refer to the 
extracts contained in this little book, (and which are only a 
few to what may be adduced) and, I am persuaded, he will at 
once acknowledge I am perfectly justified in making these 
statements. Indeed, so extremely immoral, and disgustingly 
obscene, are many passages in this book, that I feel almost 
ashamed to publish them, and, I am sure, any one, who ha? 
the least sense of delicacy, or chastity, will blush to read 
them. A book which had really originated from an Omnis- 
cient and Munificent Divinity — which was the word, or organ 
of such a being, must inculcate, in every chapter, and in every 
verse, the strictest, the purest, and most exalted morality, 
constantly exhort mankind to everything that was just, ra- 
tional, and charitable ; and contain no language but that 
which was exquisitely beautiful and elevating, and no ex- 
pressions but those which were irresistibly persuasive and 
convincing. But the Bible is a book, as may be seen on a 
reference to these extracts, quite the reverse of this. We 
are compelled, therefore, to conclude, against the established 
opinions of society, that it cannot be of Divine origin, and 
consequently cannot be the word of God. 

My humble, but decided opinion, is, as I have previously 
observed, that it is nothing more than a mere imposition ; 
an imposition which was palmed upon mankiad by the chrifih 



4 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION". 



cian priesthood, for the purpose of deluding, , or enslaving 
them — leading them from the open and cheering paths of 
knowledge and improvement, into the nauseous and gloomy 
quagmires of ignorance and superstition. The priesthood ot 
every sect of religion, in every country of the habitable globe, 
have instituted and perpetuated certain impositions, by means 
of which they have conceived they would be enabled to main- 
tain and increase their influence over the minds of their fol- 
lowers ; so that thereby they might still continue to luxuriate 
in ease and enjoyment, while their poor deluded victims re- 
pined in ignorance and woe. And such an imposition is this 
now established and supported by the christian priesthood, — 
an imposition which is the corner stone of their power — the 
fountain of their influence. It has been the tool which they 
have invariably used in the accomplishment of their objects, 
however selfish ; and in the consummation of their machina- 
tions, however odious. Whenever they have massacred, im- 
molated, or incarcerated those who have dared to dispute 
their vicegerency, or who have presumed to expose their 
doctrines, or denounce their practices, they have quoted this 
imposition as their authority. Whenever they have defended, 
or connived at the extortions of the tyrants who have flat- 
tered, or supported them, they have quoted this imposition 
as their authority. Whenever they have opposed any system, 
or any measure, which they considered would be inimical to 
their interests, or subversive of their power they have quoted 
this imposition as their authority. And the sooner this im- 
posture is removed — the sooner the few good seeds which it 
may contain are extracted from it, and the immense mass of 
chaff cast into oblivion, the better will it be for the ameliora- 
tion and progression of man. Perhaps the expression of such 
opinions as these may be painful to the feelings of many ex- 
cellent individuals. For this I am truly sorry, as my object 
is, not to cause pain or uneasiness, but to expose error and 
imposture. The time has now arrived when truth must come 
out — must be spoken, " without mystery, mixture of error, or 
fear of man." Too long, indeed, has this precious jewel been 
sacrificed to the paltry predilections of interest and prejudice. 
Too long have we been tossed in the dark and unfathomable 
gulf of bigotry and intolerance ; we must now make our way 
to the expansive and unruffled ocean of reason and enquiry, 
and there, free from the storms of persecution, and the 
squalls of denunciation, proceed, on our onward course, in 
security and felicity. 

Manchester, Sept. 1839. 



A VINDICATION, 

WRITTEN FOR THE SECOND EDITION 



At a period like the present when the voice of reason and 
free inquiry is rousing the intellectual faculties of the people 
from their dormancy and eDslavement ; when the luminary of 
true knowledge is diffusing its ennobling and enlightening in- 
fluence among mankind, giving, at once, a vitality and inten- 
sity to their highest and noblest aspirations ; when, indeed, 
men are becoming intelligent and reflective, instead of igno- 
rant and credulous beings, it is not to be wondered at, that 
the priesthood and their abettors should feel so distressingly 
alarmed, and have recourse to all kinds of expedients in order 
to the maintenance of their power and influence. Knowing, 
as they do, that priestcraft and enlightenment cannot even- 
tually co-exist or co-operate, — that they are at irreconcileable 
variance — that there is no affinity between them — that the 
one must necessarily stultify and annihilate the other ; and, 
seeing as they do, the extraordinary developments of mind,— 
the rapid advances in intelligence and rationality which are 
every day taking place, they are almost driven to desperation. 
They are beginning to apprehend their case is hopeless, the 
days of their domination and ascendancy are over ; that they 
have passed the meridian of their glory, and must now retire 
into utter and permanent obscurity. But being valiant and 
persevering men, at least when their own interests are concerned^ 
they are determined that they will not die without a struggle 
— a fearless and desperate struggle. And, therefore, they have 
organized all the means at their command, and commenced a 
most furious onslaught upon all who have presumed, or who 
still continue to presume, to advocate views prejudicial to their 
own. In this display of clerical zeal and intolerance, I was 
not in the least surprised that this work, amongst the rest, 
should fall in for its due quantum of abuse. Indeed, I fully 
expected it. I anticipated they would make an attack upon 
it, not indeed with the weapons of reason and argument 
by any means, as they are altogether unaccustomed to the us* 
of them, but with those of anathema and denunciation Not- 
withstanding, however, that this was my decided expectation, 
I certainly did not suppose that it would have been deemed 
requisite for so august a personage as the Lord Bishop of 
Exeter to have opened the attack. Great as my presumption 
may be, impious as my audacity certainly is in their estima* 
tion, it is yet not so great, so impious as to have emboldened 
me to have presumed that so sacred and immaculate a being 2c 
a Bishop would have deigned to have noticed it. Yet so it was* 



VINDICATION. 



Not only did he honour it with an observation, but he even 
took the trouble to denounce and anathematize it, not in a 
private company, not in any of the churches of his diocese, 
but in the highest judicature in the realm. The weight of his 
mitre, however, could not crush it. Since that time to the 
present, the clergy and their partizans have endeavoured to 
produce an unfavourable impression upon the public mind as 
to its object and tendency. The most malicious misrepre- 
sentations have been circulated, and in consequence consider- 
able misapprehension prevails upon the subject. # It is, there- 
fore, to disabuse the public of these misapprehensions, and to 
rebut the charges which have been brought against it, that 
this Vindication is written. 

One of the most common, and yet at the same time, one of 
the most singular statements which are made respecting this 
work, is, that it is a blasphemous publication — vilifies the Al- 
mighty. Now, so far from its being blasphemous, it is just 
the reverse. So far from its impugning, it vindicates the 
Divinity. Indeed, the work is written for the avowed pur- 
pose of exposing the blasphemy pronounced against the Deity> 
by the priesthood and their abettors, in saying that such a book 
as the Bible originated from him ; — is his revealed word, — 
his only and especial organ. To attribute to the Almighty 
such revolting atrocities, such shameless indecencies, such out- 
rageous indignities as are recorded, and directly ascribed to 
him in the Scriptures, is, I contend, one of the foulest and 
most monstrous blasphemies that could possibly be perpe- 
trated. And to denominate a work as blasphemous, whose 
only and express object is to repudiate such practices, is a 
paradox which I am almost at a loss to explain. Had I not an 
idea that the priesthood, being conscious of their own blas- 
phemy, were desirous of concealing it by accusing others of 
the crime, it would, to me at least, be utterly inexplicable. 
To affix the stigma of blasphemy to a work, having such ob- 
jects in view, is precisely as absurd and inconsistent as to 
apply the epithet of dishonesty to a man whose invariable wish 
had been, through the whole of his career, to pursue an honour- 
able and straightforward course. This policy of the priest- 
hood, however, cannot be adopted with success much longer. 
The intellect of society is awakening. The long night of 
ignorance and credulity is passing away, and the eyes of the 
people are opening upon that awful mass of cant and corrup- 
tion which is secreted within the strongholds of the clergy. 
Let but a few short years roll over, and the old dilapidated 
tower of priestcraft, which already totters to its basement, 
will fall with a crash that will loudly and emphatically pro- 
claim the annihilation of superstition and intolerance. 

It is next affirmed that this is an irreligious work. This 
charge is as false as it is unjust. That it is opposed, however, 
to the religion of priestcraft, — to a religion that would allow 
a selfish and arbitrary priesthood to lord over their fellow- 
creatures, to trample down their moral and intellectual capa- 
bilities, and divest them of all thrt adds purity and dignity to 



4 VINDICATION. 



7 



iheir existence, — to a religion that would allow one child of 
humanity to drink of the fountain of felicity, and compel ano- 
ther to perish in the wilderness of sorrow and despair ; — to a 
religion, in short, that would make this world " a hell to gain 
a heaven" — I freely and unhesitatingly admit ; but that it is 
inimical to the religion of charity and free enquiry,— to the 
religion that would infuse the balm of benevolence, and love 
into the bosom of every human creature, and allow all, of 
every sect, country, and colour, to express their honest and 
sincere opinions without let or hindrance, I distinctly and 
broadly deny. No ; let it not be imagined that I am averse 
to an enlarged and enlightened religion, for as the poet feli- 
citously observed, 

" My religion is Love — 'tia the noblest and purest ; 
My temple the universe — widest and surest; 
I worship my God through his works which are fair 
And the joy of my thoughts is perpetual prayer." 

There is no word which has been more abused than that of 
religion. It has frequently been made the pretext for the 
accomplishment of the most selfish, malignant and degrading 
purposes. In the hands of the priesthood it has been the bane 
of human existence, — the poison that has vitiated the virtues 
of humanity, — the monster that has sought to strangle its in- 
tellectuality. It has been religion under the auspices of the 
priesthood, which has fomented that awful storm of antago- 
nism and cruelty which has, from generation to generation, 
afflicted the human race ; which has harrowed up the most 
implacable asperities and antipathies of their nature, and 
almost shipwrecked their moral sensibilities and aspirations. 
Wherever we observe its operations, whether in ancient or 
modern times, whether in our own or foreign nations, in an- 
cient Chaldea, Egypt, Greece, or Rome, or modern Spain, 
Italy, France, or Great Britain, its object and tendency has 
been invariably the same, — the subjection of human reason,— 
the contraction of human thought, — the paralyzation of the 
human faculties. On looking into the pages of history we 
find that the brightest, noblest, and best of men of every clime, 
— those who have been the master spirits of the age in which 
they flourished ; all, indeed, whose exertions have tended to 
the enlightenment and emancipation of man, if they have not 
fallen actual sacrifices at the altar of bigotry, they have been 
necessitated to fly from its scourge, or succumb, more or less, 
to its arbitrary domination. If this assertion needs proof, 
arise ye departed spirits of an Anaxagorus, Socrates, Pytha- 
goras, Aristotle, Locke, and a Lawrence, and bear witness ! 
Oh ! when we think of the barbarities and indignities to 
which these men were subjected, we cannot but exclaim of 
religion, as Madame Roland did of liberty, O ! Religion what 
crimes are committed in thy name ! No, let it not be con- 
ceived that this work is inimical to " pure religion, and un- 
defiled before God," it can only be destructive to the cupidity 
and intolerance, superstition, and delusion, practised and per 
petuated under its assumed sanction. 



8 



A VINDICATION. 



It is next said by these " Ambassadors of God" and their 
deluded votaries, that I have endeavoured to bring the " Holy 
Scriptures" into contempt by unfair and dishonest means, — 
that I have entirely disregarded the immense mass of Ex- 
ternal Evidence in favour of the genuineness and authenticity 
of the Bible, and contented myself by merely examining its 
Internal Evidence : and, to cap the climax of their rage and 
denunciation, they state, that a work like this ought not, for 
a single moment, to be tolerated, but the strong arm of the 
law should exert its supremacy and immediately stop it. Now 
as to my having endeavoured " to bring the Holy Scripture? 
into contempt by unfair and dishonest means" I most unhesi- 
tatingly and fearlessly deny the charge. What are the means 
which I have adopted. They are these. In the first place I 
stated if the Bible was the word of God, if he either wrote, 
or inspired men to write it, it could not, by any possibility, 
contain anything absurd, contradictory, or demoralizing, but 
ever)'' chapter, every verse, every sentence, every line would 
be perfectly true, consistent and ennobling. To suppose thai 
such would not be the case, is to suppose that which is not 
only ridiculous and inconsistent, but truly impious and blas- 
phemous. Well, this position being established, I proceeded 
to ascertain whether the Bible contained passages of an ab- 
surd, contradictory and demoralizing character. On examin- 
ing it I found it did contain such passages, — that it abounded 
in them, — that the whole of the books from Genesis to Reve- 
lations were replete with them ; and that passages of a ra- 
tional, consistent, and ameliorating character were very rarely 
to be met with, were like "angels visits, few and far between." 
Finding this to be the case, I naturally and reasonably de- 
duced the inference, that the Bible could not be the Word of 
God, and, therefore, could be nothing more than a mere im- 
position. Some of the passages showing it could not be 01 
divine origin, I published in the order in which they are ar- 
ranged in these pages, and to obviate any confusion or mis- 
understanding, I affixed the chapter and verse to each passage. 
Now, I ask, are not these means honest, just and straightfor- 
ward ? True, it is, I have not wasted my time in discussing 
the external evidence, in endeavouring to inflict an elaborate, 
erudite, and laboured dissertation upon the reader, in order 
to invalidate the boasted testimony of Josephus, Tacitus, 
Pliny, Strabo, and others, as I conceive such is not necessary 
or advisable, when it can be clearly proved from the internal 
evidence of the book, from its own words as it w'ere, that it can- 
not possibly have originated, directly or indirectly, from the 
alleged Cause of all things. No matter what amount of ex- 
ternal evidence might be adduced in favour of its genuineness 
and authenticity, if its internal, evidence is invalidated and ex- 
ploded, it goes for nothing. In this opinion, I do not stand 
alone. Dr. Conyers Middleton, a celebrated writer and divine, 
says : " Examining the external evidence is certainly losing 
time, and beginning at the wrong end, since it is allowed on all 
hands, that if any narration can be shown to be false, any doo- 



A VINDICATION. 



trine irrational and immoral, 'tis not all the external evidence 
in the world that can or ought to convince us that such a doc- 
trine came from God." And that I have proved it contains 
narrations that " can be shown to be false," and " doctrines 
irrational and immoral," I presume, the following Extracts 
fully demonstrate. 

As to the statement, that this work ought not to be tole- 
rated, and the strong arm of the Law should instantly sup- 
press it, I of course, was duly prepared to hear it. Invariably 
has it been the modus operandi of the priesthood, whenever 
they have been forced from the field of reason and argument, 
whenever they have found that they were incapable of sus- 
taining their position on anything like reasonable grounds, to 
resort to calumny, foul and virulent, and to persecution, brutal 
and unjust. The Law ! the Law ! ! has always been one of 
their most obliging and constant friends. Indeed, the old 
musty enactments in our statute books, are the only prop 
left to support the declining frame of priestcraft. Take these 
away, and the poor sickly thing will fall upon the earth, help- 
less and dismembered. It has been well observed by Fielding, 
" Let a man abuse a physician, he makes another physician his 
friend ; let him rail at a lawyer, another pleads his cause 
gratis ; if he libels this courtier, that courtier receives him 
into his bosom ; but let him once attack an hornet's nest, 
or a priest, both nests are instantly sure to be upon him." 
The history of the world, from the most remote ages of an- 
tiquity, amply proves how dangerous it is to attack the priest- 
hood. There has occasionally been found a few bold spirits 
who have presumed to encounter the monster, but they have 
generally suffered, more or less, for their audacity ; and all 
who are determined to follow their steps, — who are resolved 
to struggle for the mental emancipation of man from the 
thraldom of priestcraft, may rest assured, they will have to 
experience annoyances, and submit to privations of no trivial 
cr transitory character. Let them remember, however, that 
no great abuse has ever been remedied, no glorious object 
ever been attained, without considerable sacrifices. Let them 
remember, that should they fall victims to the idol of super- 
stition and intolerance, still posterity will be free, — posterity 
will bless them. When the cold hand of death shall have 
assed over them, when they are quietly entombed in the 
osom of their mother earth, and the green herbage waves 
o'er their graves, their memories will be revered with grate- 
ful and unfeigned esteem. Oh ! one tear of sympathy and 
gratitude dropped upon the grave of a martyr to truth, is 
infinitely more precious than a thousand diadems placed on 
the head of a political despot, or a thousand mitres grasped in 
the hand of a religious bigot. Mosheim the great ecclesias- 
tical writer says : " It generally happens that when danger 
attends the discovery and profession of truth, the prudent are 
silent, the multitude believe, and impostors triumph/' But 
shall this be any longer ? Shall the impostors triumph ? 
Shall the demon of bigotry and cant any longer devour the* 



10 



A VINDICATION. 



moral and intellectual vitals of man ! Truth, justice, hu- 
manity, cry, No ; and every honest and independent mind 
must respond to the determination. Delightful and cheering 
is the thought, that the career of this nuisance is coming to 
a termination. A mighty movement is commencing in society, 
which will speedily stultify so foul and deleterious a pesti- 
lence. Already has the bright star of reason and free enquiry 
dawned upon humanity, and soon, by its illuminating influ- 
ence, will the world be converted from a slaughter-house of 
intolerance, persecution, and domination, into an arena of 
equity, enlightenment, and peace. To close in the sublime 
words of one of the finest female writers that ever graced the 
field of literature and moral philosophy, 

"Long 1 have the nations slept — hark to that sound! 
The sleep is ended, and the world awakes : 
Man rises in his strength, and looks around, 
"While on his sight the dawn of reason breaks. 
Lo.' knowledge draws the curtain from his mind, 
Quells fancy's vision, and his spirit tames 
Deep in his breast, that law to seek and find, 
Which Kings would write in blood, and priests in flames. 
Shout, Earth ! the creature man, till now the foe 
Of thee, and all who tread thy parent breast, 
Henceforth, shall learn himself, and thee to know, 
And in that knowledge shall be wise and blest." 

ROBERT COOPER. 

Manchester, July, 1840, 



CONTENTS. 

Page 

Preface 

Vindication 5 

Passages inconsistent with the attributes generally ascribed to the 
Deity by the Christian World, 

I. — Immateriality 1* 

II. — Omnipresence 13 

III. — Omnipotence 15 

IV. — Omniscience 17 

V. — Munificnc 18 

VI . — Impartiality 21 

VII. — Immutability 23 

VIII. — Incomprehensibility % 24 

Passages Immoral and Obscene 25 

Passages Absurd and Unnatural 40 

Passages Contradictory • • 52 



" THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ANALYZED." 



Passages inconsistent with the attributes generally 
ascribed to the deity by the christian world. 



I— IMMATERIALITY. 

" God is a Spirit" — John iv. 24. 



1. — " So God created man in his own image, in the image of 
God created he him ; male and female created he them." Gen. 
i. 27. 



2. — " The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the 
evil and the good." Pro v. xv. 3. 



3. — " So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth ; 
it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that 
which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent 
it." Isaiah lv. 11. 



4. — " Which say, stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for 
I am holier than thou ; these are a smoke in my nose, a fire 
that burneth all the day." Isaiah lxv. 5. 

5. — " Behold the name of the Lordcometh from far burning 
with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy, his lips are full 
of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire." Isa. xxx. 27. 

6. — " And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, 
the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our 
labour, and our oppression." Deut. xxvi. 7. 

7. — " Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear ; open Lord thine 
eyes, and see ; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath 
sent him to reproach the living God." 2 Kings xix. 16. . 



8. — " And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my 
throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in 
the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name 
shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their 
kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings 
in their high places." Ezekiel xliii. 7. 



12 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, 



9. — "And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched 
hand, and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in 
great wrath." Jer. xxi. 5. 



10. — " The Lord hath made bare his holy arm, in the eyes of 
all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the sal- 
vation of our God." Isaiah lii. 10. 



11. — " When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, 
the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained." Ps. viii. 3, 



12. — " And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of 
communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, 
tables of stone, written with the finger of God." Exod. xxxi. 18. 

13. — " And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance 
of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins 
even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even down- 
ward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had 
brightness round about." Ezekiel i. 27. 



14. — "And it repented the Lord that he had made man 
on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 1 ' Genesis vi. 6. 

15. — "My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart, 
my heart maketh a noise in me ; I cannot hold my peace, be- 
cause thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, 
the alarm of war." Jeremiah iv. 19. 



16. — " And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were ga- 
thered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the 
depths were congealed in the heart of the sea." Exod. xy. 8. 

17. — "And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by, 
that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee 
with my hand while I pass by." — "And I will take away 
mine hand, and thou shalt see my back pakts, but my face 
shall not be seen." Exod. xxxiii. 22, 23. 

18. — " Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my 
mouth, and the Lord said unto me, behold I have put my words 
in thy mouth." Jeremiah i. 9. 

19. — " Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot 
save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Isaiah lix. L 

20. — " Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, 
and my right hand hath spanned the heavens, when I call unto 
them they stand up together." Isaiah xlviii. 13. 

21. — " I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause 
my fury to rest ; I the Lord have said it." Ezekiel xxi. 1 7. 



ANALYZED. 



13 



22. — " And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying." Numbers 
xxv. 16. 



13. — " And God spake unto Noah, saying." Genesis viii. 15. 

24. — 4 'And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out 
Jcnah upon the dry land." Jonah ii. 10. 

25. —*' And Abram fell on his face ; and God talked with 
hrm, saying." Genesis xvii. 3. 

26. — "And the Lord smelted a sweet savour, and the Lord 
said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more 
for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from 
his youth, neither will I again smite any more every thing 
living as I have done." Genesis viii. 21. 

27. — " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and 
man became a living soul." Genesis ii. 7. 

28. — "By the breath of God frost is given ; and the breadth 
of the waters is straitened.' Job xxxvii. 10. 



29. — " And the Lord said unto him, this is the lantTwhich I 
sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will 
give it unto thy seed ; I have caused thee to see it with thine 
eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither." — " So Moses the ser- 
vant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to 
the word of the Lord." — " And he buried him in a valley in 
the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor : but no man knoweth 
of his sepulchre unto this day." Deut. xxxiv. 4, 5, 6. 

Also notes 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 44, 46, 63, 64, 65, 72, 114, 130, 133. 



II. — OMNIPRESENCE. 



" One God and father of all, who is above all, and through all 
and in you all." Ephesians iv. 6. 

" Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? Or whither shall I flee 
from thy presence?" — "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art 
there ; If I make my bed in hell behold thou art there." — 
" If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the utter- 
most parts of the sea ;" — " Even there shall thy hand lead me; 
and thy right hand shall hold me." Psalms cxxxix. 7 to 10. 



30. — " Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 
Jesus " Who being in the form of God thought it not roobery 
to be equal with God." Philippians ii 5, 6. 



14 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



31. — " And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the top 
of the Mount ; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the 
Mount, and Moses went up." Exodus xix. 20. 

32. — " And the Lord came down in a cloud and spake unto him, 
and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the 
seventy elders : and it came to pass that, when the spirit rested 
upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease." Num. xi. 25. 



33. — " And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and 
stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron, and Miriam, 
and they both came forth." Num. xii. 5 . 



34. — " For I know their works and their thoughts ; it shall 
come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall 
come and see my glory." Isaiah lxvi. 18. 



35. — " And come and stand before me in this house, which is 
called by my name, and say, we are delivered to do all these 
abominations. " Jeremiah vii. 10. 



36. — " And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the 
Mount, and be there ; and I will give thee tables of stone, and 
a law, and commandments which I have written ; that thou 
mayest teach them." Exodus xxiv. 12. 

37. — " And he left off talking with him, and God went up 
fro** Abraham.*' Gen. xvii. 22. 



38. — " And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 
which the children of men builded." Gen. xi. 5. 



39. — "And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a 
dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven which said, Thou 
art my beloved son ; in thee I am well pleased." Luke iii. 22. 

40. — " Eor the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a 
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first." 1 Thess. iv. 16. 



41. — "Thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and 
will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem ; and Jerusalem shall be 
called a city of truth ; and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, 
the holy mountain." Zechariah viii. 3. 

42. — "And I will dioell amongst the children of Israel, and 
will be their God." Exodus xxix. 45. 



43. — " And God met Balaam, and he said unto him, I have 
prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bul- 
lock and a ram." N ,im ' xxiii. 4. 



ANALYZED* 



•1 



44. — For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy yzmp, 
jo deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; 
jherefore shall thy camp be holy, that he see no unclean thing 
h. thee, and turn away from thee." Deut. xxiii. 14. 

45. — " They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they 
£e until the day that I visit them, saith the Lord, then I will 
i)ring them up and restore them to this place." Jer. xxvii. 22. 

46. — "I saw the Lord standing upon the altar : and he said, 
Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake : and cut 
them in the head all of them ; and I will slay the last of them 
with the sword ; he that fleeth of them shall not flee away ; 
and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered." Amos 
ix. 1. 



47. — " God that made the world, and all things therein, 
seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not 
in temples made with hands" Acts xvii. 24. 



48. — "Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying." 
Jer. ii. 1. 



49. — " God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount 
Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth 
was full of his praise." Habakkuk iii. 3. 



Also Notes 1, 63, 66, 303. 



III.— OMNIPOTENCE 



"But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this 
is impossible, but with God all things are possible" Matt, 
xix. 26. 



50. — " And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the 
inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out the in- 
habitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." 
Judges i. 19. 



51. — "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, 
and the weakness of ». >od is stronger than men." 1 Cor. i. 25. 

52. — "For thou shalt worship no other God ; for the Lord, 
whose name is jealous, is a jealous God." Exodus xxxiv. 14. 

53. — " They have moved me to jealousy with that which is 
Uot God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities ; 
and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a 
people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation." 
DeiiSeroiioiny xxxii. 2 J 



16 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



54. — " I am the Lord that is my name; and my glory will I 
not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." Isa. 
xlii. 8. 



55. — " Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am 
married unto you; and I will take you one of a city, and two of 
a family, and I will bring you to Zion." Jeremiah iii. 14. 

56. — " A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth, for 
the Lord hath a controversy with the nations ; he will plead 
with all flesh, he will give them that are wicked to the sword, 
saith the Lord." Jeremiah xxv. 31. 



57. — "Hear the word of the Lord ye children of Israel, for 
the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, 
because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in 
the land." Hosea iv. 1. 



58. — " I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down 
into the valley of Jehosaphat ; and will plead with them there 
for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they have 
scattered among the nations, and parted my land." Joel iii. 2. 

59. — "And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this 
people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people." — " Now, there- 
fore, let me alone that my wrath may w r ax hot against them, 
and that I may consume them ; and I will make of thee a great 
nation." Exodus xxxii. 9, 10. 



60. — " It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for 
ever ; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on 
the seventh day he rested and was refreshed." Ex. xxxi. 17. 



61. — "For God created man to be immortal, and made him 
to be an image of his own eternity." — ' ' Nevertheless, through 
the envy of the devil, came death into the world ; and they that 
do hold of his side do find it." Wisdom of Solomon ii. 23, 24. 



62. — " To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world 
unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them ; and hath 
committed unto us the word of reconciliation." 2 Cor. v. 19. 



63. — " And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled a man 
with him until the breaking of the day." — " And when he saw 
that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his 
thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he 
wrestled with him." — "And he said, Let me go for the day 
breaketh ; and he £aid, I will not let thee go except thou bless 
me." — " And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he 
said Jacob." — "And he said, Thy name shall be called no more 
Jacob, but Israel ; for as a prince hast thou power with God, and 
with men, and hath prevailed* 1 '- " And Jacob asked him and 



ANALYZED. 



17 



said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name : And he said, Where- 
fore is it, that thou dost ask after my name ? and he blessed 
him there." — " And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, 
for / have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 
Genesis xxxii. 24-30. 



IV. — OMNISCIENCE. 

" And they prayed, and said, Thou Lord which knowest the 
hearts of ALL men, show whether of these two hast thou 
chosen?' Acts i. 24. 



" But God hath revealed them urAo us by his spirit : for the 
spirit searcheth ALL things, yea, the deep things of God." 
1 Cor. ii. 10. 



" No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from 
him." Ecclesiasticus xlii. 20. 



" the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of 
God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past 
finding out." Romans xi. 33. 



64. — " And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unt* 
him, Where art thou?" Genesis iii. 9. 

65. — " And he said, Who told thee, that thou wast naked ? 
East thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou 
shouldst not eat?" Genesis iii. 11. 



66. — "And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are 
tkese with thee?" Numbers xxii. 9. 



67. — "And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab, king of 
Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?" 2 Chron. 
xviii. 19. 



68. — " Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers 
found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked 
after vanity and are become vain V Jeremiah ii. 5. 



69. — " Then saith the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain 
bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and 
gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them whether 
they will walk in my law or no." Exodus xvi. 4. 



70. — " When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had 
heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples than John." 
John iv. 1. 



18 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



71. — "Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, 
and the weakness of God is stronger than men." 1 Cor. i. 25. 



72. — "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to 
another, and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of 
.remembrance was written before him for them that feared 
the Lord, and that thought upon his name." Malaclii iii. 16. 



73. — " And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my 
law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, 
neither walked therein."— " But have walked after the imagi- 
nation of their own heart, and after Balaam, which their 
fathers taught them." Jeremiah ix. 13. 

74. — "And ye have done worse than your fathers; (for be- 
hold ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, 
that they may not hearken unto me.") Jeremiah xvi, 12. 

75. — "Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words 
that I shall speak unto thee, receive in thine heart, and hear 
with thine ears." Ezekiel iii. 10. 



76. — "They shall walk after the Lord; he shaJ roar like a 
lion : when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from 
the west." Hosea xi. 10. 



77. — "The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he sna** 
fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt 
before your eyes." Deuteronomy l. 30, 



78. — " The great God that formed all things, both rewardeih 
the fool, and rewardeth transgressors." Proverbs xxvi. 10. 



79. — "And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower 
which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Be- 
hold the people is one, and they have all one language; and 
this they begin to do." — " Go to, let us go down, and there 
confound their language, that they may not understand one 
Mother's speech*' Genesis xi. 5, 6, 7. 



Also Notes 63, 121, 144, 147, 152, 153. 



V.— MUNIFICENCE. 

** He that loveth not, knoweth not God ; for God is lm*" 
% John iv. 8. 



" The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, and 
he knoweth thsm that trust in biro " Nahum L 7. 



ANALYZED 



19 



"All the works of the Aord are good; and he will give every 
needful thing in due season." Ecclesiasticus xxxix. 33. 

80. — " For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a 
jealous God" Deuteronomy iv. 24. 

81. — "God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth ; the Lord 
revengeth and is furious ; the Lord will take vengeance on his 
adversaries ; and. he reserveth wrath for his enemies." Nahum 
L 2. 

82. — " It is & fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living 
God." Hebrews x. 31. 



83. — " The Lord is a man of war ; the Lord is his name." 
Exodus xv. 3. ■ 

84. — " The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man ; he shall 
stir up jealousy like a man of war ; he shall cry, yea, roar ; hi* 
shall prevail against his enemies." Isaiah xlii. 13. 

85. — " The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought 
forth the weapons of his indignation ; for this is the work of the 
Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans." Jer. 1. 25. 



86. — "And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of 
Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out 
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his 
brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neigh- 
bour. And the children of Levi did according to the word of 
Moses ; and there fell of the people that day about three thou- 
sand men" Exodus xxxii. 27, 28. 



87. — "For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto 
the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, 
and set on fire the foundation of the mountains." — " I will heap 
mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them." — 
" They shalt be burnt with anger, and devoured with burning 
heat, and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth 
of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the 
young man, and the virgin, the suckling also, vith the man of 
grey hairs." Deuteronomy xxxii. 22, 23, 24, 25. 

88. — Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve 
them ; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God ; visiting the 
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and 
fourth generation of them that hate me." Exodus xx. 5. 



89. — " The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even 
the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs xvi. 4. 



the light, and create darkness ; I make peace 
I the Lord do all these things." Isaiah xlv 7. 

b 2 



20 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 



91. — " And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply 1113 
signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt." — " But Pharaoh 
shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, 
and bring forth mine armies and my people the children of 
Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments." Exod 
vii. 3, 4. ■ 

92. — " And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote 
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of 
Pharaoh, that sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the 
captive that was in the dungeon \ and all the first-born of 
cattle." Exodus xii. 29. 



93. — " And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will hill you with 
the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children 
fatherless." Exodus xxii. 24. 



94. — "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying," " Vex the 
Midianites, and smite them." Numbers xxv. 16, 17. 



95. — " And the Lord's anger was kindled the same time, and 
he swear, saying," " Surely none of the men that came up out 
of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the land 
which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob ; 
because they have not wholly followed me." Num. xxxii. 
10, 11. 

96. — "Now go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all 
that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and 
woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep camel and ass." 
1 Samuel xv. 3. 



97. — " Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, say- 
ing, The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the 
cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land ; 
therefore, he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they 
slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of 
the land." 2 Kings xvii. 26. 

98. — "For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, 
and his fury upon all their armies ; he hath utterly destroyed 
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter." Isaiah xxxiv. 2. 



99. — " Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in 
the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and five 
thousand ; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, 
they were all dead corpses." Isaiah xxxvii. 36. 



100.— "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will brinff 
evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and 
though they shall cry unto me, I will not heaaken unto them" 
Jeremiali xi* 11. 



101. — " The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return until he 



ANALYZED. 



21 



have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his 
heart ; in the latter days ye shall consider it." Jer. xxx. 24. 



102. — " For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concern- 
ing the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the 
kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by 
the sword," — " They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it 
is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain 
in mine anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness 
I have hid my face from this city." Jer. xxxiii. 4, 5. 

103. — " And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle as 
if it were of a garden ; he has destroyed his places of the assem- 
bly ; the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to 
be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his 
anger the king and the priest." Lam. of Jer. ii. 6. 

104. — "The young and the old lie on the ground in the 
streets : my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword ; 
thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger ; thou hast 
killed, and not pitied." Lam. of Jer. ii. 21. 



105. — " Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst 
of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers ; and I will exe- 
cute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I 
scatter into all the winds." — " Wherefore, as I live saith the 
Lord God, surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with 
all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, 
therefore will I also diminish thee, neither shall mine eye 
spare, neither will I have any pity." Ezek. v. 10, 11. 



106. — " So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel ; and there 
fell of Israel seventy thousand men." 1 Chronicles xxi. 14. 



107.— " He that is far off shall die of the pestilence, and 
he that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remaineth 
and is besieged shall die by the famine ; thus will I accom- 
plish my fury upon them." Ezek. vi. 12. 



108. — " Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled 
against her God ; they shall fall by the sword ; their infants 
shall be DASHED IN PIECES, and their women WITH 
CHILD shall be RIPPED UP." Hosea xiii. 16. 



Also Notes, 56, 79, 119, 121, 126, 143, 149. 



VI.— IMPARTIALITY. 

" Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I per- 
ceive that God is no respecter of persons. 1 Acts x. 34: 



22 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 

M For there is no respect of persons with God." Rom. ii. II. 



109. — "Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, 
that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Chrift 
Jesus, with eternal glory." 2 Timothy ii. 10. 



110. — " For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God ; 
the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a special people 
tjnto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the 
earth." Deuteronomy vii. 6. 



111. — " And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and 
will be their God." Exodus xxix. 46. 



112. — "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them 
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with 
them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom 
they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land." 
Joel iii. 2. 



113. — "Behold I have done according to thy words, lo, I 
have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that there^ 
was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise 
like unto thee." 1 Kings iii. 12. 



114. — "I have loved you saith the Lord; yet ye say,. 
Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother, 
saith the Lord; yet I loved Jacob," — "And I hated Esau, 
and laid his mountains and his heritage waste, for the dragons 
of the wilderness." Malachi i. 2, 3. 



115. — "As it is written Jacob have I loved, but Esau have 
I hated." Romans ix. 13. 



116.—" Now God had brought Daniel into FAYOUR and 
tender love with the prince of the eunuchs." Daniel i. 9. 



117. — "For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with 
wisdom." Wisdom of Solomon, vii. 28. 



118. — " The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth 
low, and lifteth up." 1 Samuel ii. 7. 

119. — "ThencA and poor meet together; the Lord is the 
maker of them all/' Proverbs xxii. 2. 



120. — " For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom 
T will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I wiU 
have compassion." Romans, ix. 15. 



Also Notes 91 and 132. 



ANALYZED. 



23 



VII.— IMMUTABILITY. 

••For I am the Lord, I change not ; therefore ye sons of 
Jacob are not consumed." Malachi iii. 6. 



•' Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and 
cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no vari- 
ableness, neither shadow of turning." James i. 17. 



" God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son ol 
man that he should repent ; hath he said, and shall he not do 
it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it goodf Num- 
bers xxiii. 19. 



121. — "And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I 
have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, 
and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air ; for it re- 
penteth me that I have made them." Gen. vi. 7. 



122. — " And the Lord repented of the evil which he had 
thought to do unto his people." Exodus xxxii. 14. 



123. — "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be 
king ; for he is turned back from following me, and hath not 
performed my commandments, and it grieved Samuel, and he 
cried unto the Lord all night." 1 Samuel xv. 11. 

124. — " And when the angel stretched out his hand upon 
Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, 
and said to the angel that destroyed the people, it is enough ; 
stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the 
threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite." 2 Samuel xxiv. 16. 

125. — " If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn 
from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do 
unto them."-—" If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my 
voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would 
benefit them." Jeremiah xviii. 8, 10. 



126. — "For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all 
this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all 
the good that I have promised them." Jeremiah xxxii. 42. 

127. — "And rent your heart and not your garments, and 
turn unto the Lord your God ; for he is gracious and merci- 
ful, slow to anger, and of great kindness and repenteth him 
of the evil." Joel ii. 13. 



128. — " And God saw their works, that they turned from 
their evil way ; and God repented of the evil that he had said 
that hr- wonlri rlo unto them, and Ik <? A d it not." "h iii. 10. 



24 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 



129. — " Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone 
backward ; therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, 
and destroy thee ; I am weary with repenting." Jeremiah 

XV. 1. 



Also Notes 14, 26, and 167. 



VIII.— INCOMPREHENSIBILITY. 

" Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of 
every creature." Coloss. i. 15. 

" O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and know- 
ledge of God ; how unsearchable are his judgments, and his 
ways past finding out." Romans xi. 33. 

" For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your 
ways my ways saith the Lord." Isaiah lv. 8. 



130. — "And the Lord spake unto Moses pace to face, as 
a man speaketh unto his friend." Exodus xxxiii. 11. 



131. — "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, 
and seventy of the elders of Israel." — " And they saw the God 
of Israel ; and there was under his feet as it were a paved 
work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in 
Ms clearness." Exodus xxiv. 9, 10. 



132. — " And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel ; for 
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 
Genesis xxxii. 30. 



133. — "I saw the Lord standing upon the altar.' ' Amos 
ix. 1. 



134. — " And Jesus when he was baptised went up straight- 
way out of the water ; and lo, the heavens were opened unto 
him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and 
lighting upon him." Mat. iii. 16. 

135. — "And the Lord appeared unto him, (Isaac) and 
said, Go not down into Egypt ; dwell in the land which I shall 
tell thee of." Genesis xxvi. 2. 



136. — "And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a 
pillar of a cloud ; and the pillar of the cloud stood over ths 
door of the tabernacle." Deuteronomy xxxi. 15. 

137. — Seek ye the Lord while he may be EOTJND s call ye 
mpon him while he is near." Isaiah lv, 6. 



ANALYZED. 



25 



138. — "And ye shall seek me, and FIND me, when ye shall 
search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah xxix. 13. 

139. — "Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of 
God ; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth 
God." 1 John iv. 7. 



140. — " This then is the message which we have heard oi 
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is 
no darkness at all" 1 John i. 5. 



Also Notes 1, 17, 34, 80, 83. 



PASSAGES IMMORAL AND OBSCENE. 



GOD. 

141. — "And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of 
whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.' ' — Now the birth of 
Jesus Christ was on this wise ; When as his mother Mary was 
espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found 
with child of the Holy Ghost." — Then Joseph her husband 
being a just -man, and not willing to make her a public example, 
was minded to put her away privily." — " But while he thought 
on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto 
him in a dream, saying, Joseph thou son of David, fear not to 
take unto thee Mary thy wife ; for that which is conceived in 
her is of the Holt Ghost." Matthew i. 16, 18, 19, and 20. 

142. — " And I will give this^eople favour in the sight of the 
Egyptians ; and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall 
not go empty :" — " But every woman shall borrow of her neigh- 
bour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, 
and jewels of gold, and raiment ; and ye shall put them upon 
your sons and upon your daughters ; and ye shall SPOIL the 
EGYPTIANS." Exodus iii. 21, 22. 



143. — " So Jehu SLEW all that remained in the house of 
Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and 
his priests, until he left him none remaining." — "And the 
Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing 
that which is RIGHT in mine eyes, and hast done unto the 
house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy 
children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of 
Israel." 2 Kings x. H and 30. 



144. — "And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou 
mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over 
Israel ? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse 
the Beth-lehemite ; for I have provided me a king among his 
sons." — "And Samuel said, how can I go? If Saul hear it 



26 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 



he will kill me. And the Lord^said, take an heifer with thee, 
and say I am come to sacrifice to the Lord." 1 Sam. xvi. 1, 2, 

145. — " Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not 
good, and judgments whereby they should not live/' Ezekiel 
xx. 25. 

146. — "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in 
them that perish ; because they receive not the love of the 
truth, that they might be saved." — "And for this cause, God 
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a 
LIE." 2 Thess. ii. 10, 11. 



147. — "And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of 
Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead ? And one 
spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that 
manner. " — "Then there came out a spirit and stood before the 
Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto 
him, Wherewith?" — "And he said, I will go out and be a 
LYING SPIRIT in the mouth of all his prophets. And the 
Lord said, thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail; 
go out, and do even so." 2 Chron. xviii. 19, 20, 21. 



148. — " And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken 
a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will 
stretch out mine hand upon him, and will destroy him from 
the midst of my people Israel." Ezek. xiv. 9. 

149. — " And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having 
the key of the bottomless pit and a preat chain in his hand." — 
" And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the 
Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." — " And 
cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a 
seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, 
till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he 
must be loosed a little season." — "And shall go out to deceive 
the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog 
and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of 
of whom is as the sand of the sea." Rev. xx. 1, 2, 3, 8. 



150. — "He is a merchant, the balances of DECEIT are in 
his hand; he loveth to OPPRESS." Hosea xii. 7. 



151. — "The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. 
And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a WIFE of 
WHOREDOMS, and CHILDREN of WHOREDOMS; for 
the land hath committed great whoredoms, departing from the 
Lord." Hosea i. 2. 



152. — " And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise 
men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men ; and 
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake saith the king, 
whose name is the Lord of Hosts." Jer. li. 57. 



AN AI YZKD. 



27 



153. — "Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus sai'vh tlie 
Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Drink ye and be drunken, 
and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword 
which I will send among you." Jer. xxv. 27. 



153 [2.]— "And thou shalt bestow that money for whatso- 
ever thy soul lusteth after , for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, 
or for STRONG DRINK, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth : 
and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou 
skalt rejoice, thou and thine household." Deut. xiv. 26. 

153. [3.] — "Behold I will corrupt your seed and spread dung 
upon your faces, even the dung of your solemnfeasts."Mal. ii. 3. 



MOSES. 

154. — " And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was 
grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their 
burdens ; and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of 
his brethren." — " And he looked this way and that way, and 
when he saw that there was no man, he SLEW the Egyptian, 
and hid him in the sand." Exodus ii. 11, 12. 



155. — "Now therefore (says Moses,) kill every male among 
the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by 
lying with him." — " But all the women children, that have not 
know a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." 
Num. xxxi. 17, 18. 

156. — "And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some 
of yourselves unto the -war, and let them go against theMidian- 
ites, and avenge the Lord of Midian." — " And Moses sent them 
to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the 
son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, 
and the trumpets to blow in his hand." Num. xxxi. 3, 6. 



DAVID. 

157. — "And it came to pass in an evening tide, that David 
arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's 
house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing her- 
self, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And 
David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, is not 
this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife, of Uriah the 
Hittite ? And David sent messengers and took her ; and she 
came in unto him, and he lay with her, (for she was purified 
from her uncleanness,) and she returned unto her house. And 
the woman conceived and sent and told David, and said, I am 
with child. And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah 
the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David." 2 Sam. xi. 2 to 6. 

[The story then proceeds to represent David, ' the man after 
God's own hearty as endeavouring to cajole the poor cuckold 
Uriah. But he returns to the war without visiting his wife, and 
David sends a letter with him to Joab, in which letter he 



28 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



orders Joab to place Uriah in the front of the battle, and then 
leave him so that he might be killed. Joab obeys his orders, 
Uriah is slaughtered, and he then takes Bath-sheba his wife, 
and marries her, in order that he might continue to gratify his 

lust upon her !] 

158. — " And David laid up these words in his heart, and was 
sore afraid of Achish the King of Gath. And he changed his 
behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their 
hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle 
fall down upon his beard J " 1 Samuel xxi. 12, 13. 

, 158. [2.] — In the thirty-eighth Psalm a very chaste story is 
told of David's disorder. The three following verses are a spe- 
cimen: — -"My wounds stink and are corrupt, because of my 
foolishness. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and 
there is no soundness in my flesh. My lovers and my friends 
stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off." 
Psalms xxxviii. 5, 7, 11. 



159. — " Wherefore David arose, and went, he and his men, 
and slew of the Philistines two hundred men ; and David brougnt 
their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that 
he might be the king's son-in-law ; and Saul gave him Michal 
his daughter to wife." 1 Samuel xviii. 27. 



160. — " Now King David was old, and stricken in years, and 
they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore 
his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord 
the king, a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and 
let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord 
the king may get heat. So they sought for a fair damsel 
throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag, a 
Shunammite, and brought her to the king. And the damsel 
was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him, 
but the king knew her not." 1 Kings i. 1 to 4. 

161. — "And David gathered all the people together, and went 
to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. And he took 
their king's crown from off his head, (the weight whereof was 
a talent of gold, with the precious stones,) and it was set on 
David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in 
great abundance. And he brought forth the people that were 
therein, and put them under saws and under harrows of iron, 
and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick- 
kiln ; and thus did he unto ALL the cities of the children of 
Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jeru- 
salem." 2 Samuel xii. 29 to 31. 



162. — "And behold (says David in his dying moments to his 
son Solomon, ) thou hast with thee Shemei the son of Gera, a 
Benjamite, of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grivous curse* 
in the day when I went to Mahanaim ; but he came down t 



ANALYZED. 



29 



meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I 
will not put thee to death with the sword. Now therefore 
hold him not guiltless ; for thou art a wise man, and knowest 
what thou oughtest to do unto him ; but his hoar head bring 
thou down to the grave with blood." 1 Kings ii. 8, 9. 



SOLOMON. 

163. — " And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three 
hundred concubines ; and his wives turned away his heart." 
1 Kings xi. 3. 

164. — " How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's 
daughter ! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of 
the hands of a cunning workman. Thy naval is like a round 
goblet, which wanteth not liquor ; thy belly is like an heap of 
wheat, set about with lilies. Thy two breasts are like two 
young roes that are twins. Thy neck is as a tower of ivory, 
thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Beth- 
rabbim ; thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh 
towards Damascus." Solomon's Songs vii. 1 to 4. 



JOSHUA. 

165. — " And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, 
both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and 
ass, with the edge of the sword. But Joshua had said unto 
the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the har- 
lot's house, and bring out thence the woman and all that she 
hath, as ye sware unto her." Joshua vi. 21, 22. 

166. — " And it was told Joshua, saying, the five kings are 
found hid in a cave at Makkedah. And Joshua said, Roll great 
stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep 
them. And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and 
smite the hindmost of them, suffer them not to enter into their 
cities ; for the Lord your God hath delivered them into your 
hand. Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and 
bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. And after- 
wards Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on 
five trees ; and they were hanging upon the trees until the 
evening." Joshua x. 17, 18, 19, 22, 26. 



EZEKIEL. 

167. — "Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth 
part of an hin ; from time to time shalt thou drink And thou 
shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that 
COMETH OUT OF MAN, in their sight. And the Lord said, 
Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread 
among the Gentiles, whither will I drive them. Then said I, 
Ah Lord God, behold my soul hath not been polluted ; for from 
my youth up even till now, have I not eaten of that which 
Aieth of itself, or is torn in pieces, neither came there abomi 



30 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. 



nable flesh into my mouth. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have 
given thee COW'S dung for MAN'S dung, and thou shalt 

PREPARE THY BREAD THEREWITH." Ezekiel iv. 11 to 15. 



ABRAHAM. 

168 — "And Abraham journeyed from thence toward thesouth 
country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned 
in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife. She is my 
sister; and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. But 
God came- to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, 
Behold thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou 
hast taken ; for she is a man' a wife. But Abimelech had not 
come near her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous 
nation ? Said he not unto me, She is my sister ! and she, even 
she herself, said, He is my brother : in the integrity of my heart 
and innocency of my hands have I done this." Gen. xx. 1 to 5 . 

169. — "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, 
which she had borne unto Abraham, mocking. "Wherefore she 
said unto Abraham, cast out this bond-woman, and her son ; 
for the son of this bond- woman shall not be heir with my son, 
even with Isaac. And Abraham rose up early in the morning 
and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar 
(putting it on her shoulder) and the child and sent her away, 
and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer- 
sheba." Genesis xxi. 9, 10, 14. 



ISAAC. 

170. — " And the men of the place asked him of his wife ; 
f.nd he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my 
v ife ; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for 
T ebekah, because she was fair to look upon. And it came to 
pass when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king 
of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw and behold, 
Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech 
called Isaac, and said, Behold of a surety she is thy wife ; and 
how sayest thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, 
Because I said, lest I die for her." Genesis xxvi. 7, 8, 9. 



NOAH. 

171. — " And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and 
he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham the father of 
Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two 
brethren without." Genesis ix. 21, 22. 



SAMSON. 

172. — " Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, 
and went in unto her." Judges xvi. 1. 

JUDAH. 

173. — " And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went 
oown from his brethren, and turned into a certain Adullamite, 



ANALYZED. 



31 



whose name was Hirah. And Judah saw there a daughter of a 
certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah , and he took her 
AND WENT IN UNTO HER. And she conceived, and bare 
a son; and he called his name Er." Genesis xxxviii. 1 to 3, 



174. — " And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's 
wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. And 
Onan knew that the seed should not be his, and it came to pass 
when he went in unto his brother's wife that he spilled it on 
the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother." 
Gen. xxxviii. 8, 9. 

175. — "And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father- 
in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep. And she put 
her widow's garments off from her and covered her with a vail, 
and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the 
way of Timnath, for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she 
was not given unto him to wife. When Judah saw her, he 
thought her to be an harlot; beeause she had covered her face. 
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray 
thee, let me come in unto thee ; (for he knew not that she was 
his daughter-in-law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, 
that thou mayest come in unto me ? And he said, I will send 
thee a kid from the flock ; and she said, Wilt thou give me a 
pledge, till thou send it ? And he said, What pledge shall I 
give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy 
staff that is in thine hand : and he gave it her, and came in 
unto her, and she conceived by him. And she arose, and went 
away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments 
of her widowhood. And Judah sent the kid by the hand of 
his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the wo- 
man's hand, but he found her not. Then he asked the men of 
that place, saying, Where is the harlot that was openly by the 
way side ? And they said, There was no harlot in this place. 
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her ; and 
also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this 
place. And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be 
ashamed : behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 
And it came to pass about three months afte*, That it was told 
Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the 
harlot ; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And 
Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. When 
she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, 
By the man, whose these are, am I with child : and she said, 
Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and brace- 
lets, and staff. And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She 
liath been more righteous than I ; because that I gave her not 
to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. And it 
came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold twins were 
in her womb. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that 
the one put out his hand; and the midwife took and bound upon 
his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. And it 
came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his b* iher 



32 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



same out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach 
be upon thee : therefore his name was called Pharez. And after- 
ward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his 
hand : and his name was called Zarah." Gen. xxxviii. 13 to 30. 



LOT. 

176. — "And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the moun- 
tain, and his two daughters with him : for he feared to dwell in 
Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And 
the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there 
is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of 
all the earth. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and 
we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 
And they made their father drink wine that night ; :md the 
first-born went in, and lay with her father ; and he perceived 
not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to 
pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, 
Behold, I lay yesternight with my father ; let us make him 
drink wine this night also ; and go thou in, and lie with him, 
that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their 
father drink wine that night also ; and the younger arose, and 
lay with him , and he perceived not when she lay down, nor 
when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with 
child by their FATHER. 7 ' Gen. xix. 30 to 36. 



RUTH. 

177. — " Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy 
raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor : but make 
not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating 
and drinking. And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou 
shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, 
and uncover his feet, and lay thee down ; and he will tell thee 
what thou shalt do. And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and 
his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap 
of corn ; and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid 
her down. At it came to pass at midnight, that the man was 
afraid, and turned himself : and behold a woman lay at his feet. 
And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth 
thine handmaid : spread therefore thy skirt over thine hand- 
maid; for thou art a near kinsman. And he said, Blessed be 
thou of the Lord, my daughter ; for thou hast shewed more 
kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as 
thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. And 
now, my daughter, fear not ; I will do to thee all that thou re- 
fairest : for all the city of my people doth know that thou art 
& virtuous woman." Ruth iii. 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 



RACHEL. 

178. — "And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob n© children, 
Rachel envied her sister ; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, 
or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel ; 
and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from the« 



ANALYZED. 



33 



the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold, my muidBilhah r 
go in unto her ; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may 
aiso have children by her. And she gave him Billah, her 
handmaid, to wife ; and Jacob ivent in unto her. And Bilhah 
conceived, arid bare Jacob a son." Genesis xxx, 1 to 5. 

179. — " And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's 
tent, and into the two maid servants' tents; but he found them 
not Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's 
tent. Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the 
camel's furniture and sat upon them. And Laban searched 
all the tent, but found them not. And she said to her father, 
Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee ; 
or the custom of women is upon me : and he searched, but 
bund not the images." Genesis xxxi. 33 to 35. 

POTIPHAR'S WIFE. 

180. — " And it came to pass after these things, that his mas- 
er's wife cast her eyes u^on Joseph ; and she said, Lie with me. 
3ut he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my 
naster wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath 
committed all that he hath to my hands ; there is none greater 
in this house than I ; neither hath he kept back anything from 
me, but thee, because thou art his wife ; how then can I do 
this great wickedness, and sin against God ? And it came 
to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened 
not unto her, to lie by hei , or to be with her. And it came to 
pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his 
business; and there was none of the men of the house there 
within. And she caught him by the garment, saying, Lie with 
me ; and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him 
out. And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his 
garment in her hand, and was fled forth, that she called unto the 
men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath 
brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us ; he came in unto me 
to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice." 

She then told the same unblushing: falsehood to Potiphar, 
her husband, as soon as he returned home ; when be becomes 
indignant, and orders poor Joseph to be cast into prison." 
Gen. xxxix. 7 to 20. 



REUBEN. 

181. — " And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, 
that Reuben went and lag with Bilhah, his father's concubine: 
and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve." 
Gen. xxxv. 22. 



182. — "Reuben (says Jacob) thou art my first born, my 
might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dig* 
nity, and the excellency of power : unstable as water, thou shalt 
not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father s bed ; then 
defiledst thou it ; he went up to my couch." Gen. xlix. 3, 4 

c 



34 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



AMNON. 

183. — "And Amnon (David's eldest son,) said unto Tamar, 
Bring the meat into the chamoer, that I may eat at thine hand. 
And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought 
them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. And when she 
had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said 
unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. And she answered him, 
Nay, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to 
be done in Israel ; do not thou this folly. And I, whither shall 
I cause my shame to go ? And as for thee, thou shalt be as 
one of the fools in Israel. Now, therefore, I pray thee, speak 
unto the king ; for he will not withhold me from thee. How- 
beit he would not hearken unto her voice ; but, being stronger 
than she, forced her, and lay with her, 11 2 Sam. xiii. 10 to 14. 



ABSALOM. 

184. — "And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, (another of 
David's sons,) Go in unto thy father's concubine!-, which he 
hath left to keep the house ; and all Israel shall hear that thou 
art abhorred of thy father ; then shall the hands of all that 
are with thee be strong. So they spread Absalom a tent upon 
the top of the house ; and Absalom went in unto his father « 
concubines in the sight of all Israel.'' 2 Sam. xvi 21, 22. 



SHECHEM. 

185. — "And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare 
unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And 
when Shechem the son of Hampr the Hivite, prince of the 
country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and defiled 
her." Genesis xxxiv. 1, 2. 



CHRIST. 

186. —" If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and 
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and 
his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke xiv. 26. 

187. — " I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will 
I, if it be already kindled ? Suppose ye that I am come to give 
peace on earth? I tell you, Nay ; but rather division,' 1 Luke 
xii. 49, 51. 

188. — "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; ] 
come not to send peace, but a sword. For / am come to se 
a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against 
her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in- 
law." Matthew x. 34, 35. 



189. — " Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a 
purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip ; and he that hath 
no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." Luke 
xxii. 36. 

190. —" But those mine enemies, which would not that 1 



ANALYZED. 



should roign over them, bring hither, and slay them before 
me." Luke xix. 27. 



191. — ** He that believeth, and is baptized shall be saved ; 
but he that believeth not shall be damned.' ' Mark xvi. 16. 



191 [2.] — "And, whosoever shall not receive you, nor heal 
your words, when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake 
off the dust of your feet. Yerily I say unto you, it shall be more 
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of 
judgment, than for that city'* Matthew x. 14, 15. 

192. — " And he said unto them, unto you it is given to know 
the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are 
without, all these things are done in parables ; That seeing 
they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and 
not understand ; lest at any time they should be converted, and 
their sins should he forgiven them.** Mark iv. 11, 12. 

193. — "And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Beth* 
phage, and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sendeth forth 
♦wo of his disciples. And saith unto them, go your way into 
tfte village over against you ; and, as soon as ye be entered into it, 
ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat ; loose him, and 
bring him. And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this ? 
Say ye that the Lord hath need of him ; and straightway he 
will send him hither/' Mark xi. 1 to 3. 



194. — " And it came to pass that he went through the corn- 
fields on the Sabbath-day, and his disciples began as they went, 
to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him, 
Behold, why do they on the Sabbath-day that which is not 
lawful ? And he said unto them, have ye never read what 
David did when he had need, and was an hungred, he and they 
that were with him ? How he went into the house of God in 
the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shew 
bread, which is not lawful to eat, but for the priests, and gave 
also to them which were with him." Mark ii. 23 to 26. 



195. —** Now there was there, nigh unto the mountain, a great 
herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, say- 
ing, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits 
went out, and entered into the swine ; and the herd ran 
violently down a steep place into the sea (they were about 
two thousand ) and were choked in the sea." Mark v. 11, 12. 

196. — " And on the morrow, when they were come from Beth- 
any, he was hungry. And seeing a fig-tree afar off, having 
leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon ; and, 
when he came to it. he found nothing but leaves ; for theTiMS 
©» pigs was V- 4 1 T <*d and said unto it, Ni 

t 



36 



TEH HOLY SCRIPTURES. 



man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard 
it. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the Hg-tree 
dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance, saith 
unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou CURSEDST 
is withered away." Mark xi. 12, 13, 14, 20, 21. 



PETEK. 

197. — "Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and 
smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. 
The servant's name was Malchus. John xviii. 10. 



197. [2.]— Peter says, " And it shall come to pass thateyery 
soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from 
among the people." Acts iii. 23. 



198.— "Then took they him (Christ) and led him and 
brought him into the high, priest's house, and Peter followed 
afar off. And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the 
hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them, 
But a certain maid beheld him, as he sat by the fire, and earn- 
estly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. 
And he denied him, saying, Woman I know him not. And 
after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of 
them. And Peter said, Man I am not." Luke xxii. 54 to 58. 



PAUL. 

199. — "I robbed other churches, taking wages of them* 
to do you service." 2 Corinthians xi. 8, 

200. — " For if the truth of God hath more abounded, 
through my LIFE unto his glory, why yet am I also judged 
as a sinner." Romans iii. 7. 



201. — «» But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant." 
1 Corinthians siv. 38. 



202. — " Beware lest any man spoil you through philoso- 
phy and Vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the 
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians ii. 8, 



203 — " As we said before, So say I now again, If any man 
preach any other gospel unto you, than that ye have received 
lei him be ACCURSED." Galatians i. 9. 



204. — "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him 
be anathema Maran-atha." 1 Corinthians xvi. 22. 



205. — " A man that is an heretic after the first and second 
admonition ke.iect." Titus iii. 10. 



205 [2.]. — " I wonld they were even cut off which trouble 
you." Galatians v. 12. 



ANALYZED, 



37 



205 [3.] — "But be it so, I did not burden you, nevertheless, 
being crafty , I caught you with GUILE." 2 Cor. xii. 16. 

206. — "But Elymas the sorcerer, (for so is his name by in- 
terpretation) withstood ik^m i seeking to turn away the deputy 
from the faith. Then Saul (who also is called Paul) filled 
with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of 
all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou 
enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease to pervert the 
right ways of the Lord. And now, behold, the hand of the 
Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun 
for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a 
darkness ; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the 
hand." Acts xiii. 8 to 11. 



BARNABAS ANB PAUL. 

207. — "And, some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let 
us go again and visit our brethren in every city, where we have 
preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And 
Banabas determined to take with them John, whose surname 
was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, 
who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with 
them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between 
them, that they departed asunder, one from the other.; and so 
Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus. And Paul chose 
feilas, and departed, being recommended by the teeihEem iunto 
the grace of God." Acts xv. 36 to 40. 

JOHN. 

208. — * s If there come any unto you, asid biring no^his doe- 
trine, receive him not into your house, neither hid him God 
speed.' 9 2 John i. 10. 



GENERAL. 

209. — " So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyp- 
tians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, 
naked and bare-foot, even with their buttocks uncovered to 
the shame of Egypt." Isaiah xx. 4. 

209 [2] — " And he that is the high priest among his brethren, 
upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is 
consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, 
nor rend his clothes. Neither shall he go into any dead body, 
nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother." Leviticus 
xxi. 10, 11. 



210.— "Ar.d it came to pass through the lightness of her 
whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery 
with stones and with stocks. " Jeremiah iii. 9. 



210 [2.]—" He mo^eth his tail like a cedar, the sinews of 
&is stones are wrapped togeihez." Job xl, .17. 



38 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURFS 



211.— "Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of 
Babylon, sit on the ground; there is no throne, O daughter of 
the Chaldeans ; for thou shalt no more be called tender and deli- 
cate. Take the mill-stones and grind meal ; uncover thy locks , 
make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. Thy 
nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy jhame shall- be seen ; I 
will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man." Isa, 
xlvii. 1, 2, 3. 



212. — " Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with 
child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his 
loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into 
paleness." Jer. xxx. 6. 



213. — "Like as a woman with child, that draweth near 
the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs, 
so have we been in thy sight, O Lord." Isaiah xxvi. 17. 

214. — " Tremble, ye women that are at ease ; be troubled, ye 
careless ones; strip you and make you bare, and gird sack- 
cloth upon your loins." Isaiah xxxii. 11. 

215. —" Thus saith the Lord God, Thou shalt drink of thy 
sister's cup deep and large ; thou shalt be laughed to scorn, and 
had in derision ; it containeth much. Thou shalt be filled with 
drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and 
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Exekiel xxiii. 
32, 33. ' — 

215 [2.]— "But Rabshakeh said unto them, hath my master 
sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words; hath 
he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may 
eat their own dung, and drink their OWN PISS with you." 
2 Kings xviii. 27. 

215. [3.]—" Therefore, behold 1 will bring evil upon the 
house of Jeroboam, aud will cut off from Jeroboam him thai 
pisseth against the wall.* 9 1 Kings xiv. 10. 

215. [4.] — " Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp 
for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh." Isa. xvi. 11. 



215. [5.] — " We nave been with child, we have been in pain, 
we have, as it were, brought forth wind. 9 * Isaiah xxvi. 18. 



215. [6.]-— "And Ehud put forth his left hand, and too* 
the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly ; 
and the haft also went in after the blade, and the fat closed upon 
the blade, so that he could not draw the dragger out of his 
belly, and the dirt came out.** Judges iii. 21, 22. 



216. [7.] — "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his 
privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of 
the Lord.'* Deut. xxiii. 1 



ANALYZED. 



39 



215. [8.] — " So, and more also, do God unto the enemies of 
David, if I leave of all that pertain to him, by the morning light, 
any that pisseth against the wall." 1 Samuel xxv. 22. 



215. [9.] — " And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon, 
and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself, thou shalt dig, and 
cover that which cometh from thee. So that the Lord thy God 
may see no unclean thing in the camp." Deut. xxiii. 13. 

216. — " He that is unjust, let him be unjust still ; and he which 
is filthy, let him be filthy still ; and he that is righteous, let him 
be righteous still ; and he that is holy, let him be holy still." 
Rev. xxii. 11. 

217. — " And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, 
then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until 
the even. And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the 
seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean 
till the even. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed 
of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be 
unclean until the even. And if any man lie with her at all, and 
her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days ; and all 
the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. And if a woman have 
an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separa- 
tion, or if it run beyond the time of her separation, all the days 
of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separa- 
tion ; she shall be unclean. This is the law of him that hath an 
issue, and of him whose seedgoeth from him, and is defiled there- 
with. And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath 
an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth 
with her which is unclean." Levit. xv. 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 32, 33. 



218. — " Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, 
take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto 
the elders of the city in the gate. But if this thing be true, and 
the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel, then shall 
they bring out the damsel to the door of her father's h?use, and 
themen of her city shall stone her with stones that she cue ; be- 
cause she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in h er 
father's house ; so shalt thou put away evil from among you." 
Deut. xxii. 15, 20, 21. 

219. — M Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in tne 
presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and 
spit in his face, and shall answer and say, so shall it be done 
unto that man that will not build up his brother's house." 
Deut. xxv. 9. 

220. — "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affec- 
tions ; for even their women did change the natural use into 
that which is against nature ? And likewise also the men, 
leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one 
toward another ; men with men working that which is un- 
seemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of then 
error which was meet." Romans i. 26, 27. 



40 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



221. — " Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil 
against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives 
before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he 
shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this Sun." 2 Sam. xii. 11* 

222. — " And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a wo- 
man clothed with the Sun, and the moon under her feet, and 
upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And she, being with, 
child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 
And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold, a 
great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns, and seven 
crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the 
Stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth ; and the dra- 
gon stood before the woman which wns ready to be delivered, 
for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought 
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of 
iron ; and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne." 
Rev. xii. lto5. — — 

223. — " And there was war in heaven: Michael and his 
angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and 
his angels." Revelation xii. 7. 

224. — " And he was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood ; 
and his name is called, The Word of God. And the armies 
which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed 
in fine linen, white and clean." Revelation xix. 13, 14. 



PASSAGES ABSURD AND UNNATURAL. 

225. — 44 Then spake Joshua to the Lord, in the day when the 
Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, 
and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, 
and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood 
still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged them- 
selves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of 
Jasher ? So the Sun stood still in the midst of Heaven, and 
hasted not to go down about a whole day/' Joshua x. 12, 13. 

226. — " The sun and moon stood still in their habitations ; at 
the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy 
glittering spear." Habakkuk iii. 11. 

227. — " And Mdses stretched out his hand ovei the sea, and 
the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all 
that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were 
divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the 
aea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto 
them on their rig&t hand, and on their left." Exodus xiv. 21, 22. 



228.—** And M *c a answered and $2.1$ But behold, they mQ 



ANALYZED. 



41 



Lot believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say, 
The Lord hath not appeared unto thee-. And the Lord said 
unto him, What is that in thine hand ? And he said, A rod. 
And he said, Cast it on the ground ; and he cast it on the 
ground, and it became a SERPENT ; and Moses fled from be- 
fore it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, 
and take it by the tail ; and he put forth his hand, and caught 
it, and it became a rod in his hand." Exodus iv. 1, 2, 3, 4. 

229. — " And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, 
stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may 
become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did 
so ; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote 
the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast : 
ALL the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land 
of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments 
to bring forth lice, but they could not ; so there were lice upon 
man and upon beast." Exodus viii. 16 to 18. 



230. — " Make thee an ark of gopher- wood ; rooms shalt thou 
make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with 
pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of ; 
the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the 
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou 
finish it above ; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the 
side thereof : with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou 
make it. And behold I, even I do bring a flood of waters upon 
the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from 
under heaven ; and everything that is in the earth shall die. 
But with thee will I establish my covenant ; and thou shalt 
come into the ark ; thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy 
sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, 
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them 
alive with thee ; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after 
their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing 
on the earth after his kind ; two of every sort shall come unto 
thee to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of ALL food 
that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee ; and it shall be 
for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah ; according to 
all that God commanded him, so did he." Genesis vi. 14 to 22. 



231. — "And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and 
the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up 
above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased 
greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face 
of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upcn 
the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under "the whole 
heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters 
prevail, and the mountains were covered." Gen. vii. 17 to 20. 



232. — "Elia* was a man subject to like passions 03 we &r% 



-2 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained 
not on the earth by the space of three years and six 
months." James y. 17. 



233. — " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man 
became a living soul.'' Genesis ii. 7. 



234. — " And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 
Adam, and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up 
the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had 
taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the 
man." Genesis ii. 21, 22. 



235. — " Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go- 
morrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And 
he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inha- 
bitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 
But his (Lot's) wife looked back from behind him, and she 
became a pillar op salt." Genesis xix. 24, 25, 26. 



236. — " And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold a ladder set 
upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven ; and be- 
hold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And be- 
hold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of 
Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon 
thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed." Genesis 
xxviii. 12, 13. 



237. — " And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, 
that behold, there appeared a chariot of fire ; and horses of 
fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a 
whirlwind into heaven." 2 Kings ii. 11. 

238. — " Now the Lord had prepared a great fish, (which 
Christ tells us in Matthew xii. 40, was a whale,) to swallow up 
Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and 
three nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of 
the fish's belly. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vo- 
mited out Jonah upon the dry land." Jonah i. 17, andii. 1, 10. 

239. — " And he found a new jaw bone of an ass, and put 
forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 
And Samson said, With the jaw bone of an ass, heaps upon 
heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men." 
Judges xv. 15, 16* 

240. — " And it came to pass, when she (Delilah) pressed him 
(Samson) daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul 
was vexed unto death ; that he told her all his heart, andsaidunto 
her, there hath not come a razor upon mine head, for I have been 
a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb ; if I be shave* 



ANALYZED. 



43 



then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, 
and be like any other man." The story then proceeds torepre- 
sent Delilah as betraying Samson into the hand's of his enemies 
the Philistines, who shave off the hair off his head, and afterwards 
put out his eyes, and imprison him. In course of time his hair 
begins to grow again, when his strength returns. The Philistines 
then take him to their temple, that he may make sport for them, 
and Samson then says unto the lad that held him by the hand, 
" Suffer me that I may feel the pillars where upon the house 
standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was fuU 
of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were 
there ; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men 
and women that beheld while Samson made sport. And Samson 
took hold of the two middle pillars, upon which the house stood, 
and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand and 
the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the 
Philistines, and he bowed himself with all his might ; and the 

HOUSE FELL UPON THE LORDS, AND UPON ALL THE PEOPLE THAT 

were therein ; so the dead which he slew at his death, were 
more than they which he slew in his life." Judges xvi. 16 to 30. 



241. — "And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed- 
nego, fell down bound in the midst of the burning fiery furnace, 
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning 
fiery furnace, and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and 
Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and 
come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came 
forth of the midst of the fire. And princes, governors, and 
captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, 
saw these men upon whose bodies the pire had no power, nor 
was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, 
nor the smell of fire had passed on them/' Dan. iii. 23, 26, 27. 

242. — »' Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, 
and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and 
said unto Daniel, Thy God, whom thou servest continually, he 
will deliver thee. Then the king arose very early in the morning, 
and went in haste unto the den of lions. And, when he came 
to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel : and 
the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the 
living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to 
deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, 
O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel and hath 
shut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me, forasmuch 
as before him innocency was found in me ; and also before thee, 
U king, have I done no hurt." Daniel vi. 16, 19, 20, 21, 22. 



243. — " And God saw the light that it was good ; and God 
divided the light from the darkness.'* Gen. i. 4. 



244. — "And God made two great lights; the greater light to 
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the 



44 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the 
heaven, to give light upon the earth." Genesis i. 16, 17. 



245. — "And there shall be upon every high mountain, and 
upon every high hill, rivers and streams op waters, in the 
day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover, the 
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light 
of the sun shall be seven fold, as the light of seven days, in 
the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and 
healeth the stroke of their wound." Isaiah xxx. 2o, 26. 



246. — "Again, the devil taketh him (Christ) up into an ex- 
ceeding high mountain, and sheweth him ALL the kingdoms 
of the world and the glory of them." Matthew iv. 8. 

247. — "The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me 
out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of 
the valley which was full of bones. And caused me to pass 
by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the 
open valley ; and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, 
Son of Man, Can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord 
God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon 
these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word 
of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, 
I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will 
lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and 
cover you with skin, and put breath in you ; and ye shall live, 
and ye shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I 
was commanded ; and as I prophesied there was a noise, and 
behold a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone. 
And, wnen I beheld, lo,the sinews and the flesh came upon them, 
and the shin covered them above ; but there was no breath in 
them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, pro- 
phesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord 
God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon 
these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he com- 
manded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and 
stood upon their feet, an exceeding great armv." Ezek. xxxvii. 
1 to 10. 



248. — " And it came to pass, as they were burying- a man, 
that behold, they spied a band of men, and they cast the man 
into the sepulchre of Elisna, and when the man was let down, 
and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived ; and stood up 
dn his feet." 2 Kings xiii. 21. 

249. — "Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in the 
which all that are in the GRAVES shall HEAR his voice." 
John v. 28. ■ 1 

250. — "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the UaA 
trump, (for the trumpet shall sound), and the dead shall bo 
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. xv. 25-. 



ANAL^l ZED. 



45 



251. — "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heav©i> with, 
a ahout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first ; Then we t which 
are alive and remain, shall be caught dp together with 

THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR J and SO 

shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians iv. 16, 17. 



252. — "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God ; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, 
which is the book of lite; and the dead were judged out of 
those things which were written in the books, according to 
their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it ; 
and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in 
them ; and they were judged every man according to their 
works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is .the second death." Revelations xx. 12 to 14. 



253. — " I am he that liveth and was dead ; and behold I am 
alive for evermore. Amen ; and have the keys of hell and 
of death." Revelations i. 18. 



254. — "But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping; 
and as she wept she stooped down, and looked into the sepul- 
chre. And seeth two angels in white, sitting the one at the 
head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had 
lain. And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou } She 
saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and 
I know not where they have laid him. And when she had thus 
said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and 
knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why 
weepest thou ? whom seekest thou ? she, supposing him to be 
the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have born him hence, 
tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 
Jesus saith unto her, Mary, she turned herself, and saith unto 
him, Rabboni, which is to say Master." «*ohn xx. 11 to 16, 



255. — " But Thomas, one of the twelve* called Didymus, was 
not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore 
said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, 
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my 
finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his 
side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples 
were within, and Thomas with them ; thencame Jesus, the doors 
being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my 
hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side ; 
and be not faithless but believing." John xx. 24, 25, 26, 27. 



256. — " Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of 
his disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it 
was the Lord. Jesus then oometh and taketh bread, and £iveth 
them, and fish likewise. This is now the third time th# t Jesus 



46 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was RISEN 
FROM THE DEAD/' John xxi. 12, 13, 14. 



257. — " And when he had spoken these things while they 
beheld, he was taken up ; and a cloud received him out of their 
sight. And while they looked steadily toward heaven, as he 
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel ; 
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up 
into heaven ? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into 
HEAVEN, shall so come, in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven." Acts i. 9, 10, 11. 



258.—" Then the SPIRIT took me up, and I heard behind me 
a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the 
Lord from his place. So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me 
away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit ; but 
the Land of the Lord was strong upon me/' Ezekiel iii. 12, 14, 



z59. — " And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me 
try a lock, of mine head and the spirit lifted me up between 
the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God 
to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate, that looketh toward 
the north, where was the seat of the image of jealously, which 
provoketh to jealousy." Ezekiel viii. 3. 



259. [2.J — " And Habbakuk said, Lord, I never saw Baby- 
lon : neither do I know where the den is. Then the angel of 
the Lord took him by the crown, and bare him by the hair of 
his head, and through the vehemency of his spirit, set him in 
Babylon over the den. And Habbakuk cried, saying, O Daniel, 
Daniel, take the dinner which God hath sent thee.'' Bel and 
the Dragon, 35 to 37. 



260. — " Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were 
with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) and were filled 
with indignation. And laid their hands on the apostles, and 
put them in the common prison. But the ANGEL of the 
Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them 
forth, and said, Go, stand and speak in the temple to the 
people, all the words of this life." Acts v. 17 to 20. 



261. — " And behold, there was a great earthquake ; for the 
ANGEL of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and 
rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it." 
Matthew xxviii. 2. 



262. — •« And the ANGEL of the Lord came again the second 
time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because thy 
journey is too great for thee." 1 Kings xix. 7. 



263.— " Then the ANGEL of the Lord put forth the end oi 
the staff that was in his HAND, and TOUCHED the flesh 



AN ALlZkD. 



47 



and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, 
and consumed the flesh, and the unleavened cakes. Then the 
angel of the Lord departed out of his sight." Judges vi. 21. 

264. — "Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, 
My son, see that the man have his wa(cES which went with 
thee, and thou must give him more. So he called the angel, 
and he said unto him, Take half of all that ye have brought, 
and go away in safety/' Tobit xii. 1, 5. 



265. — " Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, 
A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the 
countenance of an angel of God, very terrible ; but I 
asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name." 
Judges xiii. 6. 

266. — "Whose throne is inestimable, whose glory may not 
be comprehended, before whom the hosts of angels stand with 
trembling." 2 Esdras viii. 21. 



267. — " Thou shalt not suffer switch to live." Exod. xxii. 18. 



267 [2.] — " A man also, or woman that hath a familiar spirit, 
or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death ; they shall 
stone them with stones — their blood shall be upon them." 
Lev. xx. 27. 

267 [3.] — "And the woman said unto him, Behold thou 
knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those who 
have familiar spirits, and the wizards out of the land, where- 
fore, then, layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die." 
1 Sam. xxviii. 9. 



268. — " Jesus saith unto them, Fill the water pots with water. 
And they filled them up to the brim. And h e saith unto them, 
Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And 
they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water 
that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the ser- 
vants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast 
called the bridegroom. And saith unto him, Every man at the 
beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men have well 
drunk, then that which is worse ; but thou hast kept the good 
wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana 
of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory ; and his disciples 
believed on him." John ii. 7 to 11. 



269. — "And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; 
and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his 
servant was healed in the self same hour. And when Jesus 
was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, 
and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever 
left her ; and she arose, and ministered unto them," Matt, 
viii 13, 14, 15. 



48 



THE HOLY SCRipTUHES 



270. — "And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples 
followed him. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the 
Bea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves ; but 
he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, 
saying, Lord save us, we perish. And he saith unto theft. 
Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith ? Then he arose, and 
rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." 
Matt. viii. 23 to 26. 



271. — "And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto 
them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him 
walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit: 
and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto 
them, saying, Be of good cheer ; It is I ; be not afraid. And 
Peter answered him, and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come 
unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Pete* 
was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to 
Jesus." Matt. xiv. 25 to 29. 



272. — "And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his 
disciples. And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and 
saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, he said unto 
them, Give place : for the maid is not dead but sleepeth, and they 
laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he 
went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose." Matt, 
ix. 19, 23, 24, 25. 

273. — "And behold, a woman, which was Diseased with an 
issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the 
hem of his garment. For she said within herself, if I may but 
touch his garment I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him 
about, and when he saw her he said, Daughter, be of good 
comfort ? thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman 
was made whole f£om that hour." Matt. ix. 20, 21, 22. 

274. — " And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud 
voice, Lazarus, come forth ? And he that was dead came forth, 
bound hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face was 
bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose 
him, and tet him go." John xi. 43, 44. 

275. — "And when the day began to wear away, then came 
the twelve and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that 
they may go into the towns and country round about, and 
lodge, and get victuals : for we are here in a desert place, 
But he said unto them, give ye them to eat, and they said, 
we have no more but five loaves and two fishes; exeunt we 
should go and 'buy meat for all this people. For they were 
about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, 
make them sit down by fifties in a company. And they did 
so, and made them all sit down. Then he took the five loaves 
and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, 
t\nd brake, and gave to the disciples to »• ' x before the inuiti' 



ANALYZED. 



49 



tude. And they did eat and were all filled, and there was 
taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets." 
Luke ix. 12 to 17. 



276. — "And, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly 
there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, 
and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there 
appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat 
upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit 
gave them utterance." Acts ii. 1 to 4. 

277. — "And he (Moses) was there with the Lord forty days 
and forty nights ; he did neither eat bread nor drink water ; and 
he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten 
commandments/ ' Exodus xxxiv. 28. 



278. — " And the angel of the Lord came again the second 
time, and touched him, and said, arise and eat, because the 
journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and 
drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and 
forty nights, unto Horebthe mount of God." 1 Kings xix. 7, 8. 



279. — "Moreover he said unto me, son of man, eat that 
thou flndest ; eat this roll, (of a book) and go speak unto the 
house of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to 
eat that roll. And he said unto me, son of man, cause <hy 
belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. 
Then did I eat it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweet- 
ness." Ezek. iii. 1 to 3. 



280. — " And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell 
down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he 
smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the 
ass, and she said unto Balaam, what have I done unto thee, that 
thou hast smitten me these three times." Numbers xxii. 27, 28. 



281. — "And I beheld, and lo, the eagle rose upon her 
talons, and spake to her feathers, saying, Watch not all at 
once : sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course. 
Then I heard a voice, which said unto me, Look before 
thee, and consider the thing that thou seest. And I beheld, 
and lo, as it were a roaring lion chased out of the wood ; and 
I saw that he sent out a man's voice unto the eagle, and said, 
Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the highest shall say 
unto thee, &c." 2 Esdras xi. 7, 8, and 36, 37, 38. 



282. — "B&iletman and beast be covered with sackcloth, 
and cry mightily unto God ; yea, let them turn every one front 
his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.* 
Jonah iii. &. 

m 



50 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



283. — "And I took it and drank ; and when I had drunk^ 

of it, my heart uttered misunderstanding, and wisdom grew 
in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my memory." 2 
Esdras xiv. 40. 



284. — " In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom 
is found ; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of un- 
derstanding." Proverbs x. 13. 



285. — " Jesus answered and said unto them, verily I say 
unto you, if ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do 
this which is done to the fig-tree, but also, if ye shall say unte 
this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea,; 
it shall be done." Matthew xxi. 21. 



286. — " And the Lord said, if ye had faith as a grain of 
musiard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine- tree, be thou 
plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea ; an» 
it should obey you." Luke xvii. 6. 



287. — " Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye 
desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall 
have them," Mark xi. 24. 



258. — " Who is the image of the invisible God, the first 
born of every creature." Colossians i. 15. 

289.— " While we look not at the things which are seen, but 
at the things which are not seen ; for the things which are 
3een are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eter- 
nal." 2 Corinthians iv. 18. 



290. — "And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his 
disciples were with him ; and he asked them, saying, whom say 
the people that I am ?" Luke ix. 18. 

291 . — " I and my father are one." 

" For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, 
the Word, and the Holy Ghost ; and these three are one ■" 
1 John v. 7. 

292. — "And David danced before the Lord with all hii 
might ; and David was girded with a linen ephod." 2 Sam. 
vi. 14. — 

293. — " And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and 
the heavenls shall be rolled together as a scroll; and 
ail their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth off from the 
vine, and as a fallen fig from the fig-tree." Isaiah xxxiv. 4. 

294. — "And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth; for t&e 
first heaven, and the first earth were passed encay ; and thfiW 

was no more sea." Revelations \xi. 1. 



ANALYZED. 



51 



295. — €i Then said the Lord unto Moses, behold, I will rain 
bread from heaven for you ; and the people shall go out and 
gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, 
whether they will walk in my law, or no. And they gathered 
it every morning, every man according to his eating ; and 
when the sun waxed hot it melted." Exodus xvi. 4, 21. 



296. — " And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, 
and where in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord 
cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, 
and they died ; they were more which died with hail-stones, 
than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword." 
Joshua x. 11. — 

297. — "Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Go- 
morrah, brimstone and Jire from the Lord out of heaven." Gen. 
xix 24. 

298. — "And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, 
if i be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, 
and consume thee and thy fifty, and there came down fire from 
heaven and consumed him and his fifty." 2 Kings i. 10. 

299. — " And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, 
and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the 
land yield not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the 
good land which the Lord giveth you." Deuteronomy xi. 17. 



300. — " When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because 
they have sinned against thee ; if they pray towards this place, 
and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou 
afiiictest them." 1 Kings viii. 35. 



301. — "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago 
(whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the 
body, I cannot tell ; God knoweth) such an one caught up to 
the third heaven." 2 Corinthians xii. 2. 



302. — " And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was 
silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Rev. viii. 1. 

303. —" After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened 
in heaven : and the first voice which I heard, was as it were 
of a trumpet talking with me ; which said, come up hither, 
and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And im- 
mediately I was in the spirit ; and behold a throne was set in 
heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to 
look upon like a Jasper, and a sardine stone ; and there was a 
rain-bow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 
And round about the throne were four and twenty seats ; and 
upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in 
white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 
And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, 
and voices, and there wer*» seven lamps of fire burning befoie 

d 



53 



TEH HOLY SCRIPTURES 



the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the 
throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal ; and in the 
midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four 
beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was 
•ike a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast 
had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying 
eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about 
him, and Utiey were full of eyes within ; and they rest not day 
and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which 
was* and is, and is to come J* Revelations iv. 1 to 8. 



304. — " And, when they shall have finished their testimony, 
the BEAST that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make 
war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." 
Rev. x . 7. — 

Also Notes 73, 74, and 76. 



PASSAGES CONTRADICTORY. 

305. — " And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke 
strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into 
plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks ; nation 
shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they 
learn war any more." Micah iv. 3. 

306. — " Beat your plough shares into swords, and y out pruning 
hooks into spears ; let the weak say, I am strong." Joel iii. 10. 

307. — "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, 
or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, 
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though 
I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have 
not charity, I am nothing." 1 Corinthians xiii. 1, 2. 



308. — " As we said before, so say I now again, if any man 
preach any other gospel unto you, than that ye have received, 
let him be accursed." Galatians i. 9. 

309. — "Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye 
know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him." 
1 John iii. 15. — 

310. — "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and 
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, 
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke xiv. 26. 



,311. — "Then said Jesus unto them, put up again thy sword 
into its place.; for all they that take the sword, shall perish 
with the sword." Matthew xxvi. 52. 



812 — " Then said he unto them, but now he that hath a 
jparse, xet him take it, and likewise his scrip ; and he that ham 
m nwo&Dlet him sell his garments and buy one." Luke xxii. 36, 



ANALYZED. 



53 



313. — "But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but who- 
toever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the 
other also."— Matthew v. 39. 



314. — "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood 
be shed; for in the image of God made he man." Gen. ix. 6. 

315. — "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that 
eurse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them 
which despitefully use you, and persecute you," Matt. v. 44. 

316. — "Then said he unto the disciples, it is impossible but 
that offences will come ; but woe unto him through whom they 
oome." Luke xvii. 1 



317. — "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your 
words ; when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the 
dust of your feet." Matt. x. 14. 

317 [^.] — Christ says, "Whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall 
be in danger of hell-iire." Matt. v. 22. 

317 '3.]| — And yet he exclaims, " Ye fools and blind, for 
whether is greater the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the 
gold." Matt, xxiii. 17. 

318. — "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. xx. 3. 



319. — "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
our likeness ; and let them have dominion over the fish of the 
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over 
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon 
the earth." Gen. i. 26. 

320. — " Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve 
them ; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the 
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 
fourth generation of them that hate me." Exodus xx. 5. 



321.— "The soul that sinneth it shall die ; the son shall not 
bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the 
iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be 
upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon 
him/ Ezekiel xviii. 20. 



332. — "But the children of the murderers he slew not ; ac- 
cording unto that which is written in the book of the law of 
Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, the fathers shall 
not be put to death for the children, nor "the children be put 
to death for the fathers ; but every man shall be put to deatb 
for his own sin." 2 Kings xiv, 6. 

323. — " Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six day-; 



54 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is 
the sabbath of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt not do any 
worky thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man- servant, 
nor thy maid- servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is 
within thy gates." Exodus xx, 8, 9, 10. 



324. — " And he entered again into the synagogue ; and there 
was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched 
him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they 
inierht accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the 
withered hand, stand forth. And he saith unto them, is it lawful 
to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil ? to save life, or to 
kill ? but they held their peace. And when he had looked 
round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hard- 
ness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, stretch forth thine 
hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored 
whole as the other." Mark iii. 1 to 5. 

325. — " Honour thy father and thy mother ; that thy days 
may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth 
thee." Exodus xx. 12. 



326. — " If any man come tome, and hate not his father, and 
his mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, 
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 
xiv. 26. 

327. — " Thou shalt not kill." Exodus xx. 13. 



328. — "But those mine enemies, which would not that X 
should reign over them, bring hither and slay them before me." 
Luke xix. 27. • 

329. — " And he said unto them, thus saith the Lord God of 
Israel, put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out 
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man 
his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his 
neighbour." Exodus xxxii. 27. 

330. — " Thou shalt not commit adultery." Exodus xx. 14* 



331. — "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise ; when 
as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, belore they came 
together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." 
Matt. i. 18. 

Vide Note 141. 

332. — " Thou shalt not steal." Exodus xx. 15. 



333. — " And I will give this people favour in the s ight of the 
Egyptians ; and it shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye shall 
not go empty. But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, 
and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and 
jewels of gold, and raiment ; and ye shall put them upon jom 



ANALYZED. 



55 



arms, and upon your daughters ; and ye shall spoil the Egyp- 
tians." Exodus iii. 21, 22. 



Vide Note 142. 



334. — " The Lord is good to all ; and his tender mercies are 
over all his works." Psalms cxlv. 9. 



335. — "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which 
Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way 
when he came up from Egypt. Now go, and smite Amalek, 
and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; 
but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and 
sheep, carnal and ass." 1 Samuel xv. 2, 3. 

336. — " The Lord is gracious and full of compassion ; slow 
to anger, and of great mercy." Psalms cxlv. 8. 

337. — "And he smote the men of Beth-Shemesh, because 
they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of 
the people fifty thousand and three score and ten men : and 
the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of 
the people with a great slaughter.'' 1 Samuel vi. 19. 

338. — "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth 
iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of 
his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he 
belighteth in mercy." Micah vii. 18. 



339. — "And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them be- 
fore thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them ; thou 
shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto 
them." Deuteronomy vii. 2. 

340. — " The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and 
will not at all acquit the wicked ; the Lord hath his way in the 
whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of 
his feet." Nahum i. 3. • 

341. — " So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels 
shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. 
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be 
wailing and gnashing of teeth." Matthew xiii. 49, 50. 

342. -—" And they shall teach no more every man his neigh- 
bour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for 
they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the great- 
est of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, 
and I will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah xxxi. 34. 



343.—" Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, 
so also the soul of the son is mine : the soul that sxhitbth it 
Shall DIE." Ezekiel xviii. 4. 



56 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



344. — " And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn 
unto the Lord your God ; for he is gracious and merciful, slow 
to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the 
evil." Joel ii. 13. 

345. —" And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall 
walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the 
Lord ; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and thei* 
flesh as the dung." Zephaniah i. 17, 



345.— " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, (as 
some men count slackness,) but his long suffering to us- ward, 
not willing that any should peris h, but that all should comet® 
repentance." 2 Peter iii. 9. 



347.— "The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, 
men the wicked for the day of evil/' Proverbs xvi. 4. 



348.—" For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest 
jtothutg which thou hast made ; for never wouldst thou have 
made anything, if thou hadst hated it." Wisdom of Solomon 
ad. 24. 



349. — " For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with 
wisdom." Wisdom of Solomon vii. 28. 



350. — "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God 
our Saviour. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come 
unto the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy ii. 3, 4. 



351. — "And for this cause God shall send them strong delu- 
sion, that they should believe a lie, 1 ' 2 Thessalonians ii. 11. 

352. — " Yet saith the house of Israel, the way of the Lord 
is not equal, O house of Israel, are not my ways equal ? are 
not your ways unequal." Ezekiel xviii. 29. 

353. —" For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God : 
the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people 
unto himself above all people that are upon the face or the 
earth." Deuteronomv vii. 6. 



354. — " Lying lips are abominations to the Lord ; but they 
that deal truly are his delight." Proverbs xii. 22. 

355. — "Now therefore behold, the Lord hath put a lying 
spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord 
hath spoken evil concerning thee." 1 Kings xxii. 23. 

856. — " For God sent not his son into the world, to condemn 
the world ; but that the world through him might be saved." 
John iii. 17. — 

357, — " Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I 



ANALYZED. 



57 



came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a 
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against 
her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in- 
law" Matt. x. 34, 35. 

Also Notes 186 and 187. 

358. — " Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom ; 
and with all thy getting, get understanding." Pro v. iv. 7. 

359. — " For in much wisdom is much grief ; and he that 
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccles. i. 18. 

360. — " Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of 
wolves ; be ye therefore WISE as serpents, and harmless as 
doves." Matt. x. 16. 

361. — "For it is written, I will DESTROY the wisdom of 
the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the 
prudent." 1 Cor. i. 19. 

362. — "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; 
he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon." Psalms xcii. 12. 

363. — " The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart ; 
and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the 
righteous is taken away from the evil to come." Isaiah lvii. 1. 

364. — " As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not 
ONE." Rom. iii. 10. 

365. — " Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for 
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer 
of a RIGHTEOUS MAN availeth much." James v. 16. 

366. — "Pray without ceasing." 1. Thess. v. 17. 

367. — " And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide 
mine eyes from you ; yea, when ye make many prayers, I 
WILL NOT HEAR ; your hands are full of blood." Is. i. 15. 

368. — " Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by 
faith without the deeds of the law." Romans iii. 28. 



369. — " Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, 
and NOT BY FAITH ONLY." James ii. 24. 



370.— « For by GRACE are ye SAVED, through FAITH, 
and that not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God." Eph. ii. 8. 



371.—" But wilt thou know, O vain man, that FAITH with- 
vat WORKS is DEAD." James ii 20. 



372. — " As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away ; so 
lie that goeth down to the grave SHALL COME UP NO 
MORE." Job vii. 9. 



58 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 

373. — "And the graves were opened ; and many bodies of 
the saints which slept AROSE, and came out of the graves after 
his resurrection and went into the holy city, and appeared 
unto many." Matt, xxvii. 52, 53. 

Also Notes 254, 255, 256, and 257. 

374. —" In the beginning God CREATED the heaven and 
the earth." Gen. i. 1. 

375. — "And the earth was without form and void." Gen. i. 2. 

376. — " And God saw the light, that it was good ; and God 
divided the light from the darkness." Gen. i. 4. (This was 
on the first day.) 

377. — " And God made two great lights ; the greater light 
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night ; he made 
the stars also." Gen. i. 16. (This was on the fourth day.) 

378. — " And God saw everything that he had made, and be- 
hold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning 
were the sixth day." Gen. i. 31. 

379. — "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the 
earth was filled with violence." Gen. vi. 11. 



380. — "Behold, he puttethno trust in his saints ; yea, the 
heavens are not clean in. his sight." Job xv. 15. 

381. — " All things were made by him ; and without him was 
not anything made that was made." John i. 3. 

382. — "For by him were all things created that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether 
they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; 
all things were created by him, and for him." Col. i. 16. 

383. — "For God made not death; neither hath he pleasure 
in the destruction of the living." "Wisdom of Solomon i. 13. 

384. — "For God is not the author of confusion, but ot 
peace, as in all churches of the saints." 1 Cor. xiv. 33. 

385. — " One generation passeth away, and another genera- 
tion cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Eccles. i. 4. 



386. — "All these things live and remain for ever, for all 
uses, and they are all obedient." Ecclesiasticus xlii. 23. 

387. — " So shall it be at the end of the world ; the angels 
shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just." 
Matt. xiii. 49. 

388. — " But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great 



ANALYZED. 



59 



noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth 
also, and the works that are therein shall be burnt up." 

2 Peter iii. 10. ■ 

Also Note 294. 



389. — "For his anger endureth but a moment ; in his fa- 
vour is life ; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh 
in the morning." Psalms xxx. o. 

390. — "And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, 
and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, 
until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the 
Lord was consumed." Numbers xxxii. 13. 



391. — " Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted 
of God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth 
he any man." James i. 13. 

392. — " And it came to pass after these things, that God did 
tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham, and he said, 
Behold, here I am." Genesis xxii. 1. 



393. — " And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
for ever. Amen." Matthew vi. 13. 



394. — "And NO MAN hath ascended up to heaven, but 
he that came down from heave?i t even the Son of Man which is 
in heaven." John iii. 13. 



395. — " And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, 
that behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, 
and parted them both asunder ; and Elijah went up by & whirl- 
wind- into heaven." 2 Kings ii. 11. 

396. — "And I (Jesus) say unto you, my friends, be not 
afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more 
that they can do." Luke xii. 4. 



397. — "After these things Jesus walked in Galilee ; for he 
would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill 
him." John vii. 1. 



398 — " For there are three that bear record in heaven, the 
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are 
one." 1 John v. 7. 

399. — "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become 
as one of US, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth 
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for 
ever." Gen. iii. 22. 

400. —" There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are 
©ailed in one hope of your calling ; One Lord, one faith, on 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



baptism ; One God and father of all, who is above all, and 
through all, and in you all." Ephesians iv. 4 to 6. 



401. — "For there is one God, and one mediator between 
God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy ii. 5. 

402. — " Remember the former things of old ; for I am God, 
and there is none else ; I am God ; and there is none like 
me." Isaiah xlvi. 9. 



403. — " 7 and my father are owe." John x. 30. 



404. — " But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the 
works ; that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, 
and I in him," John x. 38. 



405. — "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband- 
man.'' 9 John xv. 1. • — — 

406, — "And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath 
born witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any 
time, nor seen his shape." John v. 37. 



407. — " The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things 
into his hand." John iii. 35. 



Also Note 401. 



408. — "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten 
Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." 
John i. 18. — — 

409. — "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light 
which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen, nor 
oan see; to whom be honour and power everlasting." 1 Tim. vi. 16. 

410. — " And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as 
a man speaketh unto his friend" Exodus xxxiii. 11. 

411. — "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, 
and seventy of the elders of Israel : And they saw the God of 
Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a 
sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clear- 
ness/' Ex. xxiv. 9, 10. 



Also Notes 17, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136. 



412. — " And he said, Thou canst not see my face ; for there 
shall no man see me, and live" Exodus xxxiii. 20. 



413. — "And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel : fir 
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Genesis 

xxxii. 30. 

Also Note 410. 



ANALYZED. 



61 



414. — *• Marvel not at this ; for the h our is coming in the which 
ail that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come 
/(""th, they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and 
they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation** 
John v. 28, 29. 

415. — «' And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God; and the books were opened; and another book was 
opened, which is the book of life ; and the dead were judged out 
of those things which were written in the books, according to 
their works." Rev. xx. 12. 



416. — "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth 
BEASTS ; even one thing befalleth them ; as the one dieth, so 
dieth the other ; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man 
hath no pre-eminence above a beast ; for all is vanity. All go 
unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust 
again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and 
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? 
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a 
man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion ; 
for who shall bring him to see what be aftee him }" Ecclea. 

iii. 19 to 22. 

Also Note 372. 



417. — "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things 
into his hand." John iii. 35. 



418. — "For though he (the Son) was crucified thbough 
weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are 
weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God 
toward you." 2 Corinthians xiii. 4. 



419. — "And he (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in 
the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself." 
Matt, xxvii. 5. 

420. — " Now this man (Judas) purchased a field with the re- 
ward of iniquity ; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in 
the midst, and all his bowels gushed out." Acts i. 18. 

421. — M And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have 
ye? and they said seven, and a few little fishes. And he took 
the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks, and brake them, 
and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 
And they did all eat, and were filled ; and they took up of the 
broken meat that was left seven baskets full. And they that 
did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children." 
Matt. xv. 34, 36, 37, 38. • 

422. —" But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And 
they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes ; 
except we should go and buy meat for all this people. For 
they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disci- 
ples, Make them sit down fifties in a company. Then he took 



62 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 



the five loaves and the two fiihes, and looking up to heaven, 
he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set 
before the multitude. And they did eat, and were all filled ; 
and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them 
twelve baskets.*' Luke ix. 13, 14, 16, 17. 



Vide Note 275. 



423. — " And set up over his head, his accusation written, 
tfiis is Jesus the King of the Jews." Matthew xxvii. 37. 



424. — "And the superscription of his accusation was written 
over the King of the Jetcs." Mark rv. 26. 



425. — "And a superscription also was written over him, in 
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, this is the King of the 
Jews." Luke xxiii. 28. — - 

426. — "AndPilate wroteatitle,andputitonthecross. And, the 
writing was Jesusof Nazareth the King of the Jews." Johnxix. 19. 

427. — " But while he thought on these things, behold the 
angel of the Lord appeared unto him (Joseph) in a dream, say- 
ing, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary 
thy wife ; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy 
Ghost/' Matt. i. 20. 

In the following note the angel is represented not as appear- 
ing unto Joseph, as above, but unto Mary his wife. 

428. — '* And the angel said unto her, fear not Mary ; for thou 
hast found favour with God. And behold, thou shalt con- 
ceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his 
name Jesus. Then said Mary unto the angel, how shall this 
be, seeing I know not a man. And the angel answered and 
said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the 
power of the Highest shall overshadow thee ; therefore also 
that holy thing, which shall be born of thee shall be called the 
Son of God." Luke i. 30, 31, 34, 35. 



429. — " In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards 
the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene, and the other 
Mary to see the sepulchre." Matthew xxviii. 1. 

430. — 11 And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene 
and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet 
spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very 
early in the morning the first day of the week, they came into 
the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." Mark xvi. 1, 2. 

431. — "The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene, 
early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the 
stone taken away from the sepulchre." John xx. 1. 



432. — " Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the 



ANALYZED, 



merning, they came unto the sepul* hro, bringing the s^wea 
which they had prepared, and Gortain others with them." 
Luke xxiv. 1. 

The individuals spoken of in this note as owning W 4&e 
sepulchre, we learn in the 10 v. are Mary Magdalene, and 

Joanna the mother of James, and other women, 

. Now we are told in note 430, (Mark xvi. 1.) that it was Mary 
Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome that came ; 
in note 429, (Matt, xxviii. 1.) that it was only Mary Magdalene, 
and the other Mary : and in note 431, (John xx. 1.) that it was 
only Mary Magdalene, 

433. — " And, behold, there was a great earthquake ; for the 
angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled 
back the stone from the door and sat upon it." Matt, xxviii. 2. 

434. — " And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us 
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" — (" And 
when they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away :) 
for it was very great." — " And entering into the sepulchre, 
they saw a young man (the angel of the Lord) sitting on the 
right side, clothed in a long white garment ; and they were 
affrighted." Mark xvi. 3, 4, 5. 

Thus in one of these notes the angel is represented as sitting 
outside the sepulchre upon the stone which he rolled from the 
door, and in the other as sitting within the sepulchre on the 
right side. 

435. — " And they entered in, and found not the body of the 
Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much per- 
plexed thereabout, behold, two men (angels of the Lord) 
srooD by them in shining garments. " Luke xxiv. 3, 4. 

In notes 433, 434, and 436, the angels of the Lord are re- 
presented not as standing, as above, but as sitting. 

436. — "But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping; 
and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the sepul- 
chre, And seeth two angels in white, sitting, the one at the 
head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had 
lain." John xx. 11, 12. 

In this, and note 435, there are represented as being two 
angels, while according to Notes, 433, 434, there was only one. 
In this note also, as well as in note 434, we are told that they 
had white garments on, and in note 435, we are told they were 
shining garments. We are likewise told in this note, that 
Mary merely looked into the sepulchre ; while in note 434, we 
are positively informed that she, and those who accompanied 
her, went into it. 



437. — " And the angel answered and said unto the women, 
Fear not ye ; for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was cruci- 
fied. He is not here ; for he is risen, as he said, Come, see th* 
place wher* the Lord lay." Matt, xxviii. 5, 6. 



64 



THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ANALYZED, 



438. — " And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, 
and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom 
seekest thGU ? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto 
him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast 
laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, 
Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni ; which 
is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I 
am not yet ascended to my Father ; but go to my brethren, 
and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, 
and to my God and your God." John xx. 14 to 17.- 

In the former of these notes, the any el is represented as telling 
the women of Christ's rising from the dead, in the latter, Christ 
is represented as telling them himself, 

439. — " And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen 
from the dead ; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee ; 
there shall ye see him : lo, I have told you. Then the eleven 
disciples, went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus 
had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped 
Mm; but some doubted." Matt, xxviii. 7, 16, 17. 



440. — "And they rose up the same hour, and returned to 
Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them 
that were with them, Saying, the Lord is risen indeed, and 
hath appeared to Simon. And they told what things were 
done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking 
of bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the 
midst of them and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." 
Luke xxiv. 33 to 36. 

Now we are told in the first of these notes that the eleven 
disciples went to galilee to meet Jesus according to appoint- 
ment, where they saw him, and worshipped him ; while in the 
latter, we are informed, that they did no such thing, but that 
Jesus appeared unto them quite unexpectedly, as they were 
assembled together at Jerusalem. 

441. — " So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, (the 
eleven apostles that were sat at meat,) he was received up to 
heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." Mark xvi. 19. 

442. — " And he led them (the eleven apostles) out as far as 
to Bethnay ; and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And 
it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from 
them, and carried up into heaven.'* Luke xxiv. 50, 51. 

So we learn, from one of these notes, that Christ ascended 
into heaven, from the place where the apostles were sat at 
meat, after* he had done speaking to them ; and from the otrner, 
that he first led them out to Bethany \ and that then his ascension 
rook place. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




013 806 651 4 % 



